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Bihar Tea Gets Trademark | Microsoft’s Bill Gates Unwittingly Promotes Chai and Chaiwala | Muskan Khanna Earns a Patent for Her Nilgiri Bamboo Tea
Bihar Tea Gets Trademark | Microsoft’s Bill Gates Unwittingly Promotes Chai and Chaiwala | Muskan Khanna Earns a Patent for Her Nilgiri Bamboo Tea | Aravinda Anantharaman | Ep 158 |
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Tata Tea Under Scrutiny | India Mandates Sale of All Tea Dust at Auction | Atul Asthana Resigns as MD and CEO of the Goodricke Group
India’s Government Requires 100% of Tea Dust to be Sold at Auction | Directive calls for 50% compulsory sale of leaf and broken leaf tea and all dust grades to be sold at public auctions. | Shantha Chhetri, a former parliamentarian from Kurseong, has written to the offices of the Prime Minister of India and…
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Unveiling the Origins of Assam Tea
Plant researchers confirmed that the wild tea trees found in Assam are indigenous to Assam and ruled out the possibility that they were introduced from Southeast Asia or China | Episode 156
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Diets that Include Tea Brewed in Teabags Linked to High PFAS Levels | Flavor-enhancing Microbes Are at the Root of Quality Tea | Retail Tea Prices Remain High
Researchers Link Diets that Include Tea Brewed in Teabags to High PFAS Levels | Flavor Enhancing Microbes are at the Root of Quality Tea | Retail Tea Prices Remain High as Inflation Eases | PLUS In 1875 European royalty and upper-class preference for milk and sugar, crumpets, and dainties limited sales of green tea, creating…
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Keemun’s Hong Cha Revival
Invented in 1875, the aromatic “qi hong cha” or Keemun black tea, grown in Qimen County in China’s Anhui Province, quickly rose to prominence, explains senior tea master Lilian Xia, President of the Canada Tea Institute. She joins Tea Biz to recount the legacy of a Chinese market-savvy entrepreneur, Yu Ganchen, the pioneer of Qimen tea,…
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Maritime Security Concerns Worsen | Rising Operating Costs Close Nine Uganda Tea Factories | Hydration Concerns Motivate Consumer Purchases
Maritime Security Concerns Worsen in Suez and The Red Sea as Two Missiles Disable British Cargo Ship | Rising Operating Costs Close a Third of Uganda’s Tea Factories | Hydration Concerns Motivate Consumer Purchases | PLUS Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) CEO Liam Brody says “New tools and approaches are changing the game from always…
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Middle East Unrest Heightens Tea Logistics Concerns | Just Ice Tea Raises $14 Million | Wagh Bakri Executive Director Dies Fleeing Stray Dogs
Middle East Unrest Heightens Tea Logistics Concerns for Transit via the Straits of Hormuz and Suez Canal | Just Ice Tea Raises $14 Million to Expand Distribution | Wagh Bakri Tea Executive Director Parag Desai, 49, Dies Fleeing Stray Dogs | PLUS Tea Biz travels to Tanzania where Tahira Nizari, a savvy business school graduate…
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Middle East Unrest Heightens Tea Logistics Concerns | Just Ice Tea Raises $14M | Wagh Bakri Executive Director Parag Desai Dies Fleeing Stray Dogs
Episode 140 | Middle East Unrest Heightens Tea Logistics Concerns for Transit via the Straits of Hormuz and Suez Canal | Just Ice Tea Raises $14 Million to Expand Distribution | Wagh Bakri Tea Executive Director Parag Desai, 49, Dies Fleeing Stray Dogs | PLUS Tea Biz travels to Tanzania where Tahira Nizari, a savvy…
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Kazi Yetu: Crafting Opportunity at Origin
In Tanzania, Kazi Yetu packages and distributes organic-certified specialty tea from high-potential cooperatives, redistributing economic gain to the farm level that empowers entrepreneurial smallholders eager to improve their livelihood.
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Dark Tea Reduces Risk of Diabetes | Kagoshima Exports | Consumers Feel Culpable for Climate Change
Episode 137 | A Daily Cup of Dark Tea Reduces the Risk of Diabetes: Researchers demonstrate tea helps control blood sugar levels | Mintel Consulting: Consumers Feel Culpable for Climate Change | Kagoshima Benefits from Diverse Tea Exports | PLUS UC Davis Global Tea Institute Begins Training Tea Professionals. Enroll by Oct. 10
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Global Tea Institute: Professional Tea Program
“We started the UC Davis Global Tea Institute Professional Tea Program at the request of the tea industry,” says Founder and Director Prof. Katharine Burnett. Leaders in their fields from Finlay, Starbucks, Peet’s, ITI, Empire Tea, Mother Parkers, Ito En, and Hamburg Teehandel present the 15 two-hour weekly sessions on topics across a wide spectrum…
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India Abandons Bharat Tea Auction Experiment and Returns to English Auction Rules
Episode 136 | Retail Sales Projections are Ho-Hum for the Holidays: Sales growth adjusted for inflation will be in the single digits, the lowest growth rate since 2018 | India Abandons Bharat Tea Auction Experiment and Returns to English Auction Rules | UC Davis Tea Institute Launches a Training Program for Tea Professionals | PLUS…
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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…
