Samuel Rai is President of Mungpoo Cinchona plantation Coffee and Darjeeling Hills! Didn’t we so long believe coffee is only grown in South Indian hills? However, the management team of Mungpoo Cinchona Plantation has been able to achieve that unachievable. They have started cultivating coffee and
The Cymbidium Park in Mungpoo was razed to the ground on 9.4.2015 by a severe Northern Wind that raised a storm. All nine, small and big poly-houses which used to shelter beautiful flowers and imported tissue cultured plant lets were destroyed. It was a Herculean
Dr Samuel Rai, Director of Cinchona Plantation, made great efforts to trace the Scottish doctor’s family who had set up the rare medicinal plantation. GB speaks to him After my joining Cinchona Plantation as Director in November 2013, I wanted to know who started the Cinchona
Dr Samuel Rai, Director of Cinchona Directorate, Mungpoo, shares with GB tales of Cinchona plantation from the days of the British Raj Cinchona is harvested in a traditional method during November-February, for which the entire plant is cut and the bark is removed right from main