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Dan Bolton, Editor and Producer, Tea Journey And Tea Biz
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New Report Examines the Causes of Gender-based Abuse in Tea
Episode 135 | A 70-page case study explains the lapses at James Finlay Kenya that led to the BBC exposé Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea | Tea Price Protests in South India Continue for the Third Week | High Temps Lower Yields of Türkiye’s Black Sea Tea | PLUS Old Tea…
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THIRST Examines Three Aggregated Tea Production Models that Benefit Smallholders
THIRST Founder/CEO Sabita Banerji says, “An alternative model of smallholder farmers aggregating is starting to emerge in Tanzania and Kenya. Control distributed amongst its elements makes for a much more powerful, stronger, sustainable, and more efficient entity. I think this model will gradually replace plantations in the long run.”
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Q&A: Yangdup Lama, India’s Top Bartender
Darjeeling native Yangdup Lama is India’s most famous bartender known for his tea cocktails. Aravinda Anantharaman chats with him about his upbringing, bartending and what a cocktail named Darjeeling would be like.
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India Tea Board Weighs Auditor Concerns | Overindulgence and High ABV Tea | Tea Stalwart: India’s Oldest Captive Elephant Dies
India Tea Board Carefully Weighs Auditor Concerns: Additional Resources Needed to Market Tea | Overindulgence and High ABV Tea | India’s Oldest Captive Elephant Dies | PLUS Tea is intricately woven into India’s cultural tapestry. In its latest marketing campaign, Tata Tea Premium acknowledges and elevates several of the Indian state’s distinctive patterns in fabric…
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AVPA Competition Enhances Understanding of Consumer Preferences in Tea
During the past six years, the Teas of the World Contest has elevated the status of tea and herbal producers, large and small, not only on the global stage but in their local markets. Teas must be traceable from origin and cannot be chemically flavored. A technical jury of professionals evaluates the teas, followed by…
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India Audit Cites Tea Board’s Regulatory Shortfalls | China Tea Exports Decline
India Government Audit Cites Regulatory Shortfalls of Tea Board: More than a third of tea smallholders were not registered by March 2021 | China Tea Exports Decline | China Travel Restrictions Ease | Kenya Tea Production is Up, Exports are Down | PLUS Entry is now open for the Leafies International Tea Awards, organized by…
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Future-Proof Your Tea Business
“Use the right information to make wise long-term tea trading decisions.”
Dan Bolton Editor and Producer, Tea Journey and Tea Biz
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Need to Know News
Coca-Cola Discontinues the Iconic Honest Tea Brand | UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says that Embracing Sustainable Agriculture is Essential for Tea Smallholders | Starbucks Exits the Russian Market after 15 years | PLUS Tea Horse founders Denise Atkinson and Marc Bohémier introduce their North American version of genmaicha
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North American Roasted Wild Rice Tea
Our roasted manoomincha honors Asian peoples, like the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, who roast barley and create boricha or mugicha. They were our inspiration. Our teas fuse the east with the west, western Indigenous peoples with Indigenous peoples from the east. – Marc Bohémier
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Need to Know News
UN FAO Hosts International Tea Day Webcast | Tea Day Sofa Summit | Global Instability is Suppressing East African Tea Prices | PLUS Sneha Balasubramaniam, Head of Marketing and Innovation at Tata Consumer Products, explains why Good Earth is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with the revival of two beloved teas.
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Need to Know News
China tea value increased by $4.4 billion to $43.2 billion in 2021 | International Tea Day is May 21 | Sofa Summit is May 23 | PLUS Yunomi.Life founder Ian Chun discusses Japan’s resurgent tea export market and the remarkable story of the record-setting two-million-yen hand-rolled green tea.
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Need to Know News
India Resumes Tea Shipments to the Russian Federation | Trade Seeks to Bypass US and EU Sanctions | COVID Surge Makes Tea Packing Unpredictable | Special Report: Beyond Tea Cuisine PLUS Tea Retail Powers Perception | South Asia Editor and Producer Aravinda Anantharaman concludes a two-part series on Realigning the Marketing of Indian Tea
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Tea Retail Powers Perception
Retail must do the heavy lifting in realigning the marketing of Indian tea. While online transactions are more common now than in past years, neighborhood kirana stores are the most common place Indians purchase packaged tea, accounting for 70% of sales. Only 7% of tea is sold at tea shops that specialize in loose leaf…
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India: What has Changed?
When you look back, let’s say 30, 40 years, what has changed in the tea market? That’s the question we need to ask. The image of tea has not changed at all. And that, I think, is the basis of many problems. – Jagjeet Kandal, IDH
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Need to Know News
Episode 66: Health Symposium Reveals a Plethora of Science-based Tea Benefits Tea News for the week ending Apr. 29 | Drinking Tea Can Enhance Human Health in Many Ways| COVID-Influenced Consumer Behaviors Present New Opportunities for the Tea Industry| Sri Lanka Tea Exports Decline 10%| PLUS South Asia Editor and Producer Aravinda Anantharaman begins a…
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UK Tea Academy
Co-founder Jane Pettigrew describes the remarkable evolution of the UK Tea Academy into an innovative global tea education resource that has emerged from the chaos of COVID-19.
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Need to Know News
Snarls in Logistics and Cool Weather Combine to Slow China’s Early Tea Harvest
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Need to Know News
The Heightened Urgency of Earth Day 2022
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Ukraine’s Cold Weather Tea
Rising temperatures threaten tea yields and force growers to consider planting “upslope” at higher elevations where cooler temperatures prevail. Unfortunately, subtropical tea cultivars perish in a hard frost, expected above 7,500 feet. At Ukraine’s Zhornyna tea farm Maksym Malygin is successfully growing plants under forest cover that have survived heavy snow during prolonged winters at…
