According to the Department of Customs, chhurpi exports stood at Rs3.99 billion in the first 11 months of the current fiscal ...

Gorkha Tea Estate (GTE) is a multi-cooperative tea estate located in the hills of Eastern Nepal, Sundarpani, Fikkal Ilam. It is currently producing about 80 tons of high-quality tea leaves.

Visits by prospective Chinese buyers to Ilam, the tea capital of Nepal, against the backdrop of Nepali tea facing uncertain access to India caught the attention of the international media. Nepal has ...

A shrub in impoverished Nepal now supplies the raw material for the bank notes used in Asia’s most sophisticated financial system. Workers cleaning argeli bark in the Ilam district of eastern ...

ILAM, March 23: Chinese tea entrepreneurs who visited Nepal for monitoring visits have demanded more than 100,000 kg of tea from various tea industries in Ilam.

KATHMANDU, April 30: With the beginning of the tea picking season, foreign tea merchants have started coming to Ilam. Tea connoisseurs and tea traders from third countries come to Ilam to taste and ...

Tea tourism is now considered a part of the global production, marketing, and consumption of tea. Many countries see it as a new way to diversify their tourism market and improve their economies. Ilam ...

Tea plantations in Ilam district began shortly after the British set up theirs across the border ridge in Darjeeling. But tea was consumed in Kathmandu long before that.

Ilam also happens to be known for its tea produce – Ilam tea. Pasang Sherpa Timur is a spice grown in the Himalayan regions.