Assam’s tea startup ‘Beyondarie’ aims to popularise wild tea in Northeast

Guwahati: For a change, taste tea leaves plucked from a forest and not from a garden. The leaves plucked from wild tea trees of Manipur have an earthy aroma.

“We believe there will still be more wild tea clusters in the interiors of the Northeast region, considering tea is native to the region along with China. Also, what we have observed is that since ‘wild tea’ grows in wild, there are plenty of natural saplings coming up every year as the wild tea trees shed their seeds during fall,” Nashat Hussain, Co-Founder at Beyondarie, a tea startup in Assam which started operations two years back, told EastMojo.

He said unlike the conventional tea industry, which started centuries ago during the British era, wild tea in India is just a few years old.