Prayas: Amazing Facts about Tea by Piyali De

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PrayasWednesday Work-out session – 29th April 2015

Presented By – Piyali De

A Cup of Tea

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Origin

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis

Tea originated in China as a medicinal drink about 4750 years ago during Tsen dynasty in form of Green Tea

Cantonese/Mandarin – Portuguese – Cha

Ming/Fujian – Dutch – Te/Tea

The Britons started to serve tea as a drink of status on and from 1650


Forms

Black tea :90 °C (194 °F)2-3 Minutes

Green tea : 80 to 85 °C (176 to 185 °F)

1-2 Minutes

Flowering tea : 100 °C (212 °F)

4-5 Minutes

Premium or delicate tea : (100 °C or 212 °F) +/- 5 Minutes


Plantation

Temperature: 21°C to 29°C is ideal for the production of tea. High temperature is required in summer. The lowest temperature for the growth of tea is 16°C.Rainfall: 150-250 cm of rainfall is required for tea cultivation.Soil: Tea shrubs require fertile mountain soil mixed with lime and iron. The soil should be rich in humus.Land: Tea cultivation needs well drained land. Stagnation of water is not good for tea plants. Heavy rainfall but no stagnancy of water, such mountain slopes are good for tea cultivation.


Processing

1. Plucking

2. Withering/ Wilting

3. Disruption

4. Oxidation / Fermentation

5. Fixation / Kill-green

6. Sweltering / Yellowing

7. Rolling

8. Drying

9. Aging / Curing


ProductionRank Country 2014

1 China 1,623,000

2 India 1,063,500

3 Kenya 377,912

4 Sri Lanka 327,500

5 Turkey 221,600

6 Vietnam 206,600

7 Iran 162,517

8 Indonesia 142,400

9 Argentina 96,572

10 Japan 82,100

In 1893, Darjeeling Tea was nominated as the finest product in International Trade Fair & Bidding in New York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan


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Some Important Info1. Tea is the most popular manufactured drink consumed in the world, equaling all others – including coffee, chocolate, soft drinks, and alcohol – combined.

2. India is the world's largest tea-drinking nation, although the per capita consumption of tea remains a modest 750 grams per person every year Turkey, with 2.5 kg of tea consumed per person per year, is the world's greatest per capita consumer.

3. As of 2013 the consumption of green tea in India was growing by over 50% a year.

4. India exported tea to different countriesvalued overall at around US$ 643.75 millionin the period of January-December 2014, approximately 78 per cent of total exports.


On your health1. Antioxidants:

protect your body from the ravages of aging and pollution.2. Less caffeine than coffee:

no causes of indigestion or headaches or interferes with sleep3. Reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke:

keep your arteries smooth and clog-free4. Protects your bones:

beneficial phytochemicals builds strong bones. 5. Sweet smile:

fluoride and tannins that may keep plaque at bay6. Immune defenses:

higher immune system activity in the blood 7. Protects against cancer:

Thank the polyphenols, cancer-fighting effects. 8. Keep you hydrated:

contribute to our fluid needs. 9. Calorie-free:

calorie-free beverage10. Increases your metabolism:

five cups of green tea per day can burn 70 to 80 additional calories


On your health1. Anxiety & Restlessness:

nervous malfunctioning

2. Difficulty Withdrawing: substance abused

3. Disruption of sleep/ Insomniac: keep your nerves restless

4. Skeletal Fluorosis: painful condition in your bones

5. Diuretic:repeated urination, loss of bladder tone

6. Other Issues:According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, drinking green tea might increase your risk of colorectal cancer, lung cancer and esophageal cancer. UMMC stresses. Additionally, green tea might cause complications among those with anxiety, high blood pressure and stomach ulcers.


Tea Gardens & Workers

• 12 day basis where daily wage is Rs.90.50/- irrespective of gender. • The rate of school drop-out is high due to poverty.• The medical facilities are also not satisfactory. • land holdings is very small. • They use firewood for cooking at the cost of environmental degradation.• They enjoy PDS facilities from both Tea Planter and Government side but have to compromise the quality of the food items and subjective only to Permanent labors for himself/herself only. • They do not have proper sanitation facility and water supply facility.• They live in an unhygienic environment without basic amenities.


On the other side…..98% of tea shops in Kolkata are run by child labor, most of them are not paid minimum wages and treated against all the humanity


Boston Tea Party

On the night of December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty boarded three ships in the Boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This resulted in the passage of the punitive Coercive Acts in 1774 and pushed the two sides closer to war, the War of Independence of United States of America


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AcknowledgementI am thankful to the Tenet Management to provide me this

opportunity to share my presentation with you through this Prayas Session.

I also pay my sincere thanks to the web world & internet based publications that I could have shared their images for this

knowledge sharing presentation.

Thank You

Piyali De 29th April, 2015

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