Hello, I'm Rahul Tandon and I'm on a tea garden in the northeast of India.

Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Today, why one of India's largest industries tea is struggling to survive.

This current infrastructure with this form of marketing, this price, is not sustainable.

Not 20 years, but it's not even sustainable for the next two, three years.

And if it doesn't deal with rising costs and increased competition from Africa,

there'll be more than just economic consequences.

You have people who are not fully equipped to work elsewhere, who are living on the garden,

and you become extremely vulnerable to social tensions.

That's all on Business Daily from the BBC.

My name is Pramathesh Bharthwaadwaj. I am the manager of Lalamukti Estate, looking after the plantation and factory production of this garden.

Right in front of us, you can see the manager's residence, which was built over 100 years back by the British planters.

And it hasn't changed much.

The legacy still goes on.

Now please come with me and let's go down to see the tea plantation.

Wonderful. Let's go.

So we've jumped into the Jeep.

Right, let's go down. Thank you.

Okay, so we've now come down to the plantation.

That was quite a bumpy ride.

Right in front of us, there's a tea plantation, which is approximately 20-year-old.

And it gives us one of the finest tea leaves.

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