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Yellow tea was an accidental discovery in the production of green tea during the Ming dynasty, when apparently sloppy practices allowed the leaves to turn yellow, which yielded a different flavour as a result. [26] Tea production in China, historically, was a laborious process, conducted in distant and often poorly accessible regions.
The etymology of the various words for tea reflects the history of transmission of tea drinking culture and trade from China to countries around the world. [14] Nearly all of the words for tea worldwide fall into three broad groups: te, cha and chai, present in English as tea, cha or char, and chai.
The British East India Company began large-scale production of tea in Assam in the early 1820s. The first tea crops grown there were of a variety traditionally brewed by the Singpho people. [1] In 1826, the East India Company took over control of the region in the Treaty of Yandabo. In 1837, the first British tea garden was established at ...
The history of tea processing corresponds intimately with the role that tea played in Chinese society and the preferred methods of its consumption in ancient Chinese society. The domestication of tea and the development of its processing method likely began in the area around what is now Southwest China, Indo-Burma, and Tibet. [ 2 ]
Production was indeed transferred, but the emblematic social conflict dragged on, and the employees succeeded in taking over the factory, founding the cooperative Scop-TI and the brand 1336, named after the 1,336 days of social conflict, as a means of distributing their production. [59] All in all, tea employs few people in France: Pagès, the ...
Some growers feel that tea production is not economically viable without some mechanization, [1] but there is evidence that unmechanized tea production is viable, albeit with lower net profit margins. [2] The Charleston Tea Garden, on Wadmalaw Island, outside of Charleston, South Carolina, is the only large-scale tea farm in the US, at 127 ...
During the twentieth century, Vietnam saw a surge in tea production and began exporting tea worldwide. As of 2015, a study conducted by the United Nations concluded that Vietnam was the world's fifth-largest exporter of tea. [21] In the same year, it was estimated that 80% of the total yield was dedicated to foreign markets. [22]
In 1837, the first English tea garden was established at Chabua in Upper Assam; in 1840, the Assam Tea Company began the commercial production of tea in the region, run by indentured servitude of the local inhabitants. Beginning in the 1850s, the tea industry rapidly expanded, consuming vast tracts of land for tea plantations.