Economic historian Robert Allen observed that during the Industrial Revolution, the British working class experienced a period of stagnant real wages. This has led many historians to investigate changes in the diet of the working class during that time. While there has been a focus on the entire...

The aim of this article is to explain the state of human rights of tea plantation workers as often been described as pathetic, but no concerted effort have yet been undertaken to promote the human right condition as a whole in the tea plantation areas of Sylhet. The first tea garden was...

Tea plantations were a major industry which played an important role in the development of Assam in particular and North East India in general. The northern bank of the River Brahmaputra which came under the Colonial rule lately also witnessed the same. The paper presents the history of the...

Tea is a regular export item for Bangladesh, but due to slow growth in production, the country's tea exports have declined. However, organic tea has a great future in this regard. Exploring the underlying factors for the adoption of organic tea farming has great potential for the development of...

This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...

In Bangladesh, tea is a cash crop that significantly benefits both our economy and food security. Hence, the study aimed to assess the present pattern of tea production and the impacts of rainfall patterns on tea yield and made tea quality. The empirical data was collected from ten tea gardens...