Prayas: Amazing Facts about Tea by Piyali De

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Wednesday Work-out session – 29th April 2015
Presented By – Piyali De

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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

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

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.

1. Plucking
2. Withering/ Wilting
3. Disruption
4. Oxidation / Fermentation
5. Fixation / Kill-green
6. Sweltering / Yellowing
7. Rolling
8. Drying
9. Aging / Curing

Rank 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

1. 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 countries
valued overall at around US$ 643.75 million
in the period of January-December 2014,
approximately 78 per cent of total exports.

1. 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 sleep
3. Reduce your risk of heart attack and stroke:
keep your arteries smooth and clog-free
4. Protects your bones:
beneficial phytochemicals builds strong bones.
5. Sweet smile:
fluoride and tannins that may keep plaque at bay
6. 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 beverage
10. Increases your metabolism:
five cups of green tea per day can burn 70 to 80 additional calories

1. 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.

• 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.

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

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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I 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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