Whereas the British planters had developed tea gardens all along the Shivaliks and Lesser Himalayas from Assam to Himachal Pradesh, in effect they did not succeed beyond the Darjeeling area. Explain.
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The failure of plantation of tea in shivalik as compared to success in northeast was because –
1. The combination of rainfall required (150 cm ) the soil required and the warmer temperature (20-35°c ) required were more suitable in the climate of northeast as compared to shivalik .
2. Earlier the plantation were managed by the British traders who were proficient in the technological know-how of tea plantation, but later the locals of himachal and uttarakhand took charges of plantation estates which caused a management and procedural blunder in the estates and ultimately the Himalayan /shivalik plantation lost its compitition with northeastern tea
3. Since the north eastern region were close to port cities of eastern coasts as compared to Himachal or uttarakhand, ur was a benefit for the north eastern tea facilities.