[Assam] Flood in tea gardens

[umesh sharma]

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It shwos floods in tea
I had read that Tea is grown on hill sides so that it is not flooded -- water comes and goes -- and tea gardens are all shown on hill sides in India. Any comments?

Umesh
PS: http://wikimapia.org/1448652/ assam map 
Assam Tea garden on slopes - but not on hills - 
http://assam.nic.in/cms/forest1.jpg
unlike Darjeeling and South India's Neelgiris?


Umesh Sharma

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