Jhapa
Nepal’s lowland tea district in the far south-east, on the plains adjoining the Indian Terai, and the source of most of the country’s tea by volume. Almost all of it is CTC grown on flat land and sold into India for blending — the exact opposite of the orthodox hill teas that give Nepal its speciality reputation. The two sectors share a country and almost nothing else.
Elevation
Recorded at 60–300 metres.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
When it is picked
A Terai plains calendar with continuous growth and no flush structure — the lowland counterpart to the hill districts above it, producing CTC rather than orthodox for exactly that reason.
How firm this is: Inferred from general knowledge of the district rather than measured or taken from a source that states it.
How the name is written
Also transliterated as jhapa. Romanisations of a district name vary by system and by vendor, and a packet spelling one way is not describing a different place.
Other teas recorded from here
Other growing regions in Nepal
The neighbouring districts are the useful comparison: they share a country, a grading convention and often a cultivar, so what differs between them is closer to terroir than anything a cross-border comparison can isolate.
Sources
- TeaHQ editorial synthesis — TeaHQ
This page is TeaHQ’s own synthesis throughout. No external document stands behind the elevation band, the climate note or the character described above, which is why each carries its confidence in the open.
Written comparisons
Where TeaHQ has set this region against something it is routinely confused with, and argued the differences out in full.
- Jhapa vs Ilam — Nepal’s two tea worlds. Jhapa on the southern plains produces most of the country’s tea by volume, almost all of it CTC sold into India for blending; Ilam in the eastern hills shares a ridge system and a season with Darjeeling and makes orthodox tea that is frequently mistaken for it.