Earlier China was the only country in the world where Tea cultivations was practiced. But these days there are so many countries with adequate climatic conditions which are engaged in this business. Major Tea producers of recent world are India, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, Mauritius, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Cameroon . Tea production is also very common in few other parts of the world like South America, Japan, Australasia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle and Far East , but the production is not on a very large scale , rather they cultivate it only for domestic purposes.
Tea production depends on the factors like altitude, proximity of the equator, rain per Cm climatic conditions of the region. Yields per hectare depends on the above factors but also on the good husbandry by the producer.
Assam in India produces up to 6000Kg of Tea per hectare, but its still less in comparison to high yielding lands of Darjeeling. Darjeeling tea is famous all over the world. Its aroma and flavor is incomparable. India is a major Tea producer with more than 400000 hectare of land under Tea cultivation. It produces almost 30% of the total tea production of the world. Srilanka is the worlds largest Tea exporter consisting of more than 21% of overall Tea export all across the world. Srilanka has almost 200000 hectares of land under tea cultivation. After India and Srilanka it comes the china which is the second largest tea producer and exporter in the world. China has a very high local consumption of tea hence its export consists of 18% of the total exports around the world.
Posted on February 4th, 2008 by sauravgr
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