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Beech Tea Estate is over a century-old tea plantation in North Bengal,India and close to the Bhutan border. Its spread over 2000 acres and produces CTC quality tea from its factory.

The population in the estate is over 12,000 including workers and their families which is quite large by even local standards. Their is a temple and a mosque inside the tea estate as is a graveyard. Beech tea estate also runs a 100 bed central hospital and has a school (with classes upto grade 12.)

Beech T.E. stands on a bank next to the river Toorsa. Formerly the only way to cross these small rapid rivers was by country boats but the rivers' importance is now for irrigation not transportation.

The North Frontier Railway (NF Railway), a branch of the Indian Railways has a station close by at a nearby town called Hashimara.

This estate is very close to the home of a primitive tribal group called the TOTO. They have the distinction of belonging to a very unique culture and living in a single village, with their unique language and numbers only about 350 souls. Anthorpologists agree that the TOTO clan is certainly unique and different from the Bhutia, Garo, Mech and Rajbanshi tribes close to whom they live. Beech T. E. is also only six miles away from the Bhutan border town of Phuntsholing and next to the Indian border town of Jaigaon. For centuries this has been the route of trade between Bhutan and India. There is an open border policy with Bhutan and this facilitates trade and commerce.