Makaibari Tea Estate is a tea garden in the Kurseong CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Makaibari literally means 'corn field'. Makaibari Tea Estate, founded in 1852, by Captain Samler, an Agent of the Darjeeling Tea Company. Samler sold the plantation to Girish Chandra Banerjee, wh…
Makaibari Tea Estate is a tea garden in the Kurseong CD block in the Kurseong subdivision of the Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Makaibari literally means 'corn field'. Makaibari Tea Estate, founded in 1852, by Captain Samler, an Agent of the Darjeeling Tea Company. Samler sold the plantation to Girish Chandra Banerjee, who ran a commissary and mail services in Kurseong. It is one of the oldest tea gardens in Darjeeling. The tea factory at Makaibari was the first in Darjeeling district, commissioned in 1859 and closed in 1933. It is one of the few tea gardens in Darjeeling owned by an Indian family. Except for a brief ownership under Captain Samler, the garden has been with the Banerjees throughout. Since the 1970s, Makaibari was led by the fourth generation planter and researcher, Swaraj Kumar Banerjee.
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