Archive for January, 2008
Tea Drinking Posh Sends Tea Sales Soaring
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Health Benefits on January 27, 2008
Girl power is alive and well – sort of. Spice Girl, Victoria “Posh Spice” Beckham was seen drinking Pu-Erh tea which has led to a 25 percent increase in sales of the tea which is said to boost metabolism and therefore aid in weight loss.
The Ultimate Tea Diet Book
Posted by Admin in Tea Health Benefits, Tea Recipes on January 27, 2008
Millions of Americans and people around the world are trying to find good healthy diet plans and programs for a healthy weight loss, especially after the New Year as part of their new years resolutions. A new book called The Ultimate Tea Diet is a presentable and fresh approach to dieting and weigh loss.
India: Tea production unit in Darjeeling gutted in fire
Posted by Admin in Tea Industry News on January 27, 2008
Thaindian.com – Bangkok, Thailand
The production unit of one of the biggest tea gardens – Longview Tea Garden — in Darjeeling hills was gutted in fire today The fire broke out at 3 a.m. at the production unit in West Bengal’s Kurseong sub-division. Four fire brigades from Kurseong and Siliguri were pressed into service, but by the time they reached the spot most of the property had been destroyed.
The Magic of Green Tea Baths
Posted by Admin in General Tea News on January 7, 2008
by Kristie Leong M.D., Jan 4, 2008
A green tea bath can be a great way to relieve stress and pamper yourself at the same time. Here’s how to take a magical green tea bath. If the affairs of the day have taken their toll on your nerves, it can be therapeutic to escape from the madness with a warm, fragrant green tea bath. If you enjoy the natural, grassy odor and taste of green tea, there are a variety of ways you can incorporate it in to your bathing experience. Here are some ideas:
South Asian tea workers call for International Tea day
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News on January 7, 2008
Sunday Times – Columbo, Sri Lanka
A group of workers, small growers and trade unionists last month said they were launching a campaign urging that governments, the UN, ILO and other international agencies declare December 15 as the International Tea Day.
The group said, at the end of the two day international tea convention held in Badulla that such recognition was necessary as the tea sector, among the highest employment providers, sustains millions of people as workers (a majority of them women) and small growers in the tea producing countries, and that there is disproportionate value accrual at the highest end of the value chain; it is never passed onto the consumers, producers or workers.
India – Loan, subsidy distributed to 34 tea estates
Posted by Admin in Tea Industry News on January 7, 2008
R. Ramabhadran Pillai
Money is intended for replantation and rejuvenation of tea plants
Loan and subsidy were distributed to 34 tea estates in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka from the Special Purpose Tea Fund constituted by the Union government at a function here on Saturday.
Union Minister of State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh, who distributed the cheques, said the fund for revival of tea plantations had been launched in West Bengal and Assam. The money was intended for re-plantation and rejuvenation of tea plants which were more than 50 years old. Out of 1,600 tea estates in the country which were eligible for the scheme, 479 had applied for it.
India – Trouble brews over tea fertiliser shortage
Posted by Admin in General Tea News, Tea Industry News on January 7, 2008
The Telegraph – Calcutta (Kolkata) India
Guwahati, Jan. 6: The year 2008, projected as a comeback year for the tea industry, started on a jarring note with Indian Potash Limited (IPL), supplier of imported fertiliser, expressing its inability to sell it at the rate fixed by the Tea Board. The reason cited by the company is high cost escalation of muriate of potash (MoP), essential to the growth of tea plant.
The crisis was discussed threadbare on Friday at a meeting attended by state officials a representative each from the Tea Board and the IPL. Quoting the company’s representative Abhijit Sinha, state agriculture commissioner J.P. Meena said prices had shot up from $270 to $400 per metric tonne since the despatch of the last consignment.
Kenya’s tea city Kericho hit by tribal violence
Posted by Admin in General Tea News on January 7, 2008
By Adrian Blomfield
As aid pours through Kenya’s port of Mombasa to avert a humanitarian disaster, Adrian Blomfield finds devastation in the tea-growing region
The fighters moved in gangs, padding silently through the tea estates as they searched for their human quarry. They had already set fire to some of their victims’ homes. Now they were hunting for survivors hiding between the rows of green bushes that stretch for miles around Kericho, Kenya’s tea capital.
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