Turkey: tea harvesting
In the territories bordering the Black Sea in Turkey, tea is harvested three times a year, in May, July and September. A photo-reportage Çay (tea) is the most popular drink…
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Growing and Harvesting
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Pakistan to pursue tea plantation on commercial scale
While pursuing tea plantations on a commercial scale, the government of Pakistan has decided to cultivate tea on an area of about 25,000 acres over the next five years. “This year we…
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Man Vs Machine: Thousands Lose Jobs As Kenyan Tea Plantations Adopt Tea Plucking Machines
For years, the major tea farms in the region campaigned to substitute manual with mechanized labor in their tea plucking operations, which they said is cheaper and more efficient. However,…
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Biodiversity and historical developments in the tea industry
In its history of more than 2,500 years, Sri Lanka has been colonised by three European nations from the 16th century onwards; the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. The British, who…
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‘Newcomers’ using tea and tourism to brew up success
Two decades ago, a group of tea farmers crossed the Taiwan Straits in search of opportunities on the Chinese mainland. They settled in the mountainous town of Yongfu, Fujian province,…
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Harvesting tea at 2,400 meters
Located at an altitude of over 2,400m above sea level, 1,700-hundred-year-old tea trees in Mo Si San commune grow in special weather, bringing unique values rarely found anywhere else. Mo…
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Growers of world-famous Darjeeling tea are going organic
Pressure from international buyers and a need to preserve the soil is driving the switch. Darjeeling tea is going organic. Planters switching over claim that organic production helps maintain soil…
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Camellia open sky school
‘Camellia Khola Akash School’ (Camellia Open Sky School), an innovative initiative of the Bangladesh Tea Board (BTB), is eying to create expert tea farmers, develop the skills of small-scale tea…
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Alaska’s first tea farm is geothermally heated
The first tea farm in Alaska is getting started last week near Fairbanks. And it’s geothermally heated. Jenny Tse grew up in Fairbanks drinking coffee. “I drink black coffee,” she…
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Have You Been to Sikkim’s Only Tea Garden?
What do we talk about when we talk about tea in India? Darjeeling, Assam and Kangra—don’t we? But if we told you that you’re not a real tea aficionado if you haven’t tasted Sikkim…
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Scotland’s tea growers reveal booming demand as leaves sold all over the world
The organic grower Monica Griesbaum grows award-winning organic tea at her off-grid home, the Windy Hollow Tea Estate at Trinity Gask, Auchterarder, just north of the Ochil Hills. She said:…
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The Australian Tea Market
by Sharyn Johnston The Australian Tea Market is currently at a stage of transition, with younger consumers beginning to appreciate specialty tea options rather than the standard black tea which…
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Forest hill artisanal tea hits local market
Ceylon Pink TeaTox, a pioneering artisanal wild tea, made with a rare variety of tea leaves plucked from the highland forests, has been launched in the local market, giving consumers…
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Twenty million tea saplings will be planted next year in Sri Lanka
Twenty million tea saplings will be planted next year to increase national tea production, Company Estate Reforms, Tea and Rubber Estates Related Crops Cultivation and Factories Modernization and Tea and…
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Historic tea estate of Nepal shrinking
Ilame Sahar, Chiyabari Ramro, Tyahi Paryo Ghar Hamro’. It is a line of a song which popularised the relation between Ilam and tea garden. The song not only celebrates tea…
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Brewing new ideas to sustain tea sector
Tea plantation business has gone through a tumultuous last two decades, ever since the WTO came into being and quantitative restrictions (QRs) were lifted. Global movement of commodities became commonplace…
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New tea picking gadget to save farmers money
Farmer John Tanui uses a motor-driven tea leaf picker at his farm in Kosirai, Chesumei constituency in Nandi County. He says the machine is more effective than old-age manual picking…
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High-quality tea could be grown right here in Scotland – with a little help from scientists
A group of Scottish tea planters are on a mission to find the perfect brew that can be grown on home soil. Rebecca Shearer speaks to some of those involved…
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African Tea Origins
An international team of specialists has conducted a study of 439 tea tree samples from 11 African and Asian countries and concluded that 79% of African tea trees are Indian…
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Elephants, Pangolins, Leopards, Chimpanzees and Baboons
It turns out that the interaction of tea and animals is not limited to insect pest damage, in which tea suffers, and scientific researches, in which animals suffer. The interests…
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