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Sri Lanka tea industry’s performance in 2021, prospects for 2022
By Forbes and Walker Tea Brokers Provisional Tea Industry Performance in Summary – 2021: Production – increase by approximately 22 m/kgs (8%) year-on-year Tea exports volume – increase by…
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Vietnamese tea enjoys surge in Taiwanese market
Vietnam remained the major tea supplier for the Taiwanese market as it exported 16,970 tonnes of tea worth US$26.7 million during the initial 11 months of last year, up 8.7% in volume and 7.8%…
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This Founder Just Launched a Company That’s Giving Tea a Much-Needed Makeover for the 21st Century: ‘Tea Is for Entrepreneurs. Coffee Is Corporate America’s Drink.’
Co-founders David Segal and Harley Finkelstein launched their company Firebelly Tea at the end of December. The curated line of teas aims to bring the beverage into the 21st century —…
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Experience: I drink more than 50 cups of tea a day
The interview process for the role of professional tea taster was intense. There was a maths test as well as a tea testing, and I had to give a presentation on a beverage of my choice. You…
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Love, tea and jazzzz
A true story from a TMC winnerNow Florian is a world famous tea person who started his own tea shop in Lyon in September 2020. Well, this sentence should stand the last one in our true story…
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How e-commerce came to the rescue of Darjeeling, Assam tea producers
Indian tea producers have been hit by challenges on the production and logistics fronts because of the Covid pandemic. E-commerce, especially for the domestic market, has helped several tea…
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Tea Pilgrimage. Aliona Velichko’s Adventures
Aliona Velichko (Minsk, Belarus) has been studying tea culture for 14 years. Tea ceremonies, tea education and also tea travel. She calls herself a tea pilgrim — a person who travels across…
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Turning Hobby into Profession. Dmitriy Filimonov’s Method
Dmitriy Filimonov is Head of the Tea Department at Goodwine company (Kyiv, Ukraine), winner of Tea Masters Cup International in Enshi, China (first in Tea Preparation, third in Tea Tasting).…
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Basics of Vietnamese Tea Culture
Indigenous way of making and drinking tea The oldest way of preparing tea that exists in Vietnam till today is “nước chè tươi” (“nuoc che tuoi”, brewing fresh tea leaves). Families living in…
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Three Kilos of Tea History. George van Driem’s Weight
George van Driem is a linguist, professor of historical linguistics, director of the Linguistics Institute at the University of Bern and author of the recently published book The Tale of Tea:…
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Polyphenolic Composition in Leaves of Camellia Irrawadiensis
Japanese scientists conducted a comparative analysis of three camellias — C. sinensis, C. irrawadiensis and C.taliensis — to determine or clarify the differences between their polyphenolic and…
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