Tea, one of the most common beverages, without which we cant even think of to start our daily schedule. Tea with its various flavor and aroma refreshes us for rest of the day and keep us alive. Have we ever thought of the way how it is being manufactured?
Saplings of tea leaves from the vast tea gardens is plucked before being taken to the factory for processing. Number of local people are hired for this purpose who first pick up those saplings from the garden and then take it to the factories. Its about 30-35 kg of tea leaves are required to manufacture 7.5-9 kg of black tea.
There are basically five stages in manufacturing of tea. The first stage is the `withering`, where the teal leaves are plucked and being sprayed on vast tray of rocks and left in open temperature of 25-30 C for 10-12 hours. During next stage , the withered leaf is broken with the help of machine. During fermentation stage the broken leaf is put in troughs and as it comes in contact with air the released enzymes oxidizes. Drying is the next stage in which fermented leaf is fed through warm air chamber, which ultimately extracts all the moisture contents of the leaf. During the final stage the black tea is fed in to the machine fitted with sieves and outlets. Hence the Tea is ready to be packed and transported to various parts of the world.
Posted on February 2nd, 2008 by sauravgr
Filed under: green tea
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