Re: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 China world exports tea
Tea Export in Oxoms Future: NYT s story is not the whole picture: Consider following and think hard. Take each point as your personal mission. Assam Produces 500,000,000 Kg of ready black tea each year. Can be doubled in 5 years thro improved Agro Techniques and irrigation= 1000,000,000 Kg 95% of above must be exported- to the world including to newly rich India. Even today (retail price in teabags ) in say Houston is $20/Kg. at least. We deliver Assams Classified Tea @$ 10/Kg CIF in high seas. Simple sum is $10 Bn/year. Value add---Starbuck fashion-- if we bring Quality Drive thro Agro Techniques+micronutrients+health drink spin. Work out a vision of Bihu Dancing Ziyoris serving Teacups worldwide. All possible! You know when all this can start? Guess! M'Da From:Dilip/Dil Deka [EMAIL PROTECTED]To:mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED]CC:assam@assamnet.orgSubject:Re: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 China world exports teaDate:Tue, 11 Oct 2005 19:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Mukulda, Please visit Twinings - Tea Production The tea producing and manufacturing process, the importance of the tea plant, growing, plucking, different manufacturing processes, sorting and packing, ...www.twinings.com/en_int/tea_production/tea_prod.html Which part of tea production in Assam needs processing technology? Machinery itself, or temperature and moisture control? I was under the impression that Indian machinery industry had advanced enough to handle the needs. Dilip mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assam has the Sun ,Rain, Temp, Devoted Acerage, manpower, established brand name.. We need Agro techniques, Processing Technology,Packaging, Psychological Marketing Strategy ,The Oxomiya Toka, Direct World Trade ,And Delivery to major consumer population Centers in days- direct from garden-(not months). Situation can be made very different. Think, all netters mm From: "Kalita, Jukti (GPC.Marketing.Princeton)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 on how China hascaptured the world exports market for teaDate: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:42:54 -0400 China has been bulldozing hillsides in central and south China at a rapid pace to make way for tea gardens and already exports a lot more tea than India does. New York Times October 11, 2005 Read the Tea Leaves: China Will Be Top Exporter By KEITH BRADSHER JINHUA, China - All the tea in China is proving to be a lot of tea these days, as hillsides across central and southern China are bulldozed to make way for tea farms even as many young Chinese are losing interest in the beverage. China still has millions of tea lovers who lavish the same attention on their beverage that oenophiles devote to wine. The finest grades of green tea, made from the most delicate baby leaves and roasted in a pan by hand, sell for hundreds of dollars a pound in Shanghai and Beijing. But Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC and other Western businesses have come up with many other ways to slake thirsts in China, especially that of young Chinese. Shifting tides in tastes are creating waves over winners and losers both at home and abroad. Teahouses in China already are being replaced by coffeehouses, and Starbucks, with more than 140 stores, has spawned a cottage industry of copycats. With tea in abundance in China, more and more is being shipped abroad, by third-generation tea farmers like Pan Jintu, who wants to supply green tea to Starbucks stores in the United States. "Many people love tea now, so I foresee our business will grow," he said, standing amid his rows of tea bushes, as women in broad hats plucked tea leaves in the surrounding hillsides here. But expanding sales by Chinese tea growers like Mr. Pan are causing alarm in other developing countries that depend on growing tea, like India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe. While the growth of China's textile industry with the end of global textile quotas has attracted more attention as a threat to poor countries, China's tea industry also poses a challenge to some of the world's poorest nations. China is now poised to become the world's largest tea exporter by tonnage, overtaking Sri Lanka this year and Kenya next year. Wide swaths of people across Asia depend on the tea industry for survival. Particularly vulnerable are countries that suffered from the tsunami last December: Indonesia, India and above all Sri Lanka, where income from the growing, processing and transport of tea helps feed nearly a tenth of the people, according to the Asian Development Bank. Yet China's re-emergence as the world's leading tea exporter invokes a centuries-old pattern: the British East India Company, which bought its tea from China, held a monopoly on supplying Britain until 1834. Only when that monopoly was broken did other countries become big exporters. The saying "I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China" came
Re: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 China world exports tea
Assam has the Sun ,Rain, Temp, Devoted Acerage, manpower, established brand name.. We need Agro techniques, Processing Technology,Packaging, Psychological Marketing Strategy ,The Oxomiya Toka, Direct World Trade ,And Delivery to major consumer population Centers in days- direct from garden-(not months). Situation can be made very different. Think, all netters mm From: "Kalita, Jukti (GPC.Marketing.Princeton)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 on how China hascaptured the world exports market for teaDate: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:42:54 -0400 China has been bulldozing hillsides in central and south China at a rapid pace to make way for tea gardens and already exports a lot more tea than India does. New York Times October 11, 2005 Read the Tea Leaves: China Will Be Top Exporter By KEITH BRADSHER JINHUA, China - All the tea in China is proving to be a lot of tea these days, as hillsides across central and southern China are bulldozed to make way for tea farms even as many young Chinese are losing interest in the beverage. China still has millions of tea lovers who lavish the same attention on their beverage that oenophiles devote to wine. The finest grades of green tea, made from the most delicate baby leaves and roasted in a pan by hand, sell for hundreds of dollars a pound in Shanghai and Beijing. But Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC and other Western businesses have come up with many other ways to slake thirsts in China, especially that of young Chinese. Shifting tides in tastes are creating waves over winners and losers both at home and abroad. Teahouses in China already are being replaced by coffeehouses, and Starbucks, with more than 140 stores, has spawned a cottage industry of copycats. With tea in abundance in China, more and more is being shipped abroad, by third-generation tea farmers like Pan Jintu, who wants to supply green tea to Starbucks stores in the United States. "Many people love tea now, so I foresee our business will grow," he said, standing amid his rows of tea bushes, as women in broad hats plucked tea leaves in the surrounding hillsides here. But expanding sales by Chinese tea growers like Mr. Pan are causing alarm in other developing countries that depend on growing tea, like India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe. While the growth of China's textile industry with the end of global textile quotas has attracted more attention as a threat to poor countries, China's tea industry also poses a challenge to some of the world's poorest nations. China is now poised to become the world's largest tea exporter by tonnage, overtaking Sri Lanka this year and Kenya next year. Wide swaths of people across Asia depend on the tea industry for survival. Particularly vulnerable are countries that suffered from the tsunami last December: Indonesia, India and above all Sri Lanka, where income from the growing, processing and transport of tea helps feed nearly a tenth of the people, according to the Asian Development Bank. Yet China's re-emergence as the world's leading tea exporter invokes a centuries-old pattern: the British East India Company, which bought its tea from China, held a monopoly on supplying Britain until 1834. Only when that monopoly was broken did other countries become big exporters. The saying "I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China" came to mean a refusal to do something even for a large and valuable payment. The history of tea itself reaches back to ancient times in China. The earliest known literary references date back nearly 5,000 years, when Emperor Shen Nung is said to have discovered the infusion when leaves dropped into his hot water by chance. Green tea is widely believed to have some medical benefits. Black tea, which may have similar benefits, is used in everything from Darjeeling to Earl Grey and is made from the leaves of the same tea plants as green tea, though processed differently. But after millennia of popularity, tea consumption in China is growing by only 2 percent a year, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. By contrast, Chinese figures show tea production rising 8.7 percent last year and rapidly accelerating as recently planted tea bushes reach maturity and as inefficiently managed, state-owned farms are turned over to output-conscious entrepreneurs. For the last three years, Beijing has set as its top goal the alleviation of rural poverty and high income inequality between coastal cities and rural areas, to the benefit of the tea industry. Municipal and provincial governments now vie to offer subsidies to an industry seen as an answer to lingering poverty and unemployment in the countryside, and are paying up to half the cost for the planting of new tea farms and the building of tea-processing factories. Beijing has also eliminated an 8 percent tax on tea production as a way to increase rural incomes. Tea promotion
Re: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 China world exports tea
Mukulda, Please visit Twinings - Tea Production The tea producing and manufacturing process, the importance of the tea plant, growing, plucking, different manufacturing processes, sorting and packing, ...www.twinings.com/en_int/tea_production/tea_prod.html Which part of tea production in Assam needs processing technology? Machinery itself, or temperature and moisture control? I was under the impression that Indian machinery industry had advanced enough to handle the needs. Dilip mc mahant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assam has the Sun ,Rain, Temp, Devoted Acerage, manpower, established brand name.. We need Agro techniques, Processing Technology,Packaging, Psychological Marketing Strategy ,The Oxomiya Toka, Direct World Trade ,And Delivery to major consumer population Centers in days- direct from garden-(not months). Situation can be made very different. Think, all netters mm From: "Kalita, Jukti (GPC.Marketing.Princeton)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: assam@assamnet.orgSubject: [Assam] Article from New York Times 10/11/2005 on how China hascaptured the world exports market for teaDate: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:42:54 -0400 China has been bulldozing hillsides in central and south China at a rapid pace to make way for tea gardens and already exports a lot more tea than India does. New York Times October 11, 2005 Read the Tea Leaves: China Will Be Top Exporter By KEITH BRADSHER JINHUA, China - All the tea in China is proving to be a lot of tea these days, as hillsides across central and southern China are bulldozed to make way for tea farms even as many young Chinese are losing interest in the beverage. China still has millions of tea lovers who lavish the same attention on their beverage that oenophiles devote to wine. The finest grades of green tea, made from the most delicate baby leaves and roasted in a pan by hand, sell for hundreds of dollars a pound in Shanghai and Beijing. But Coca-Cola, Pepsi, McDonald's, KFC and other Western businesses have come up with many other ways to slake thirsts in China, especially that of young Chinese. Shifting tides in tastes are creating waves over winners and losers both at home and abroad. Teahouses in China already are being replaced by coffeehouses, and Starbucks, with more than 140 stores, has spawned a cottage industry of copycats. With tea in abundance in China, more and more is being shipped abroad, by third-generation tea farmers like Pan Jintu, who wants to supply green tea to Starbucks stores in the United States. "Many people love tea now, so I foresee our business will grow," he said, standing amid his rows of tea bushes, as women in broad hats plucked tea leaves in the surrounding hillsides here. But expanding sales by Chinese tea growers like Mr. Pan are causing alarm in other developing countries that depend on growing tea, like India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe. While the growth of China's textile industry with the end of global textile quotas has attracted more attention as a threat to poor countries, China's tea industry also poses a challenge to some of the world's poorest nations. China is now poised to become the world's largest tea exporter by tonnage, overtaking Sri Lanka this year and Kenya next year. Wide swaths of people across Asia depend on the tea industry for survival. Particularly vulnerable are countries that suffered from the tsunami last December: Indonesia, India and above all Sri Lanka, where income from the growing, processing and transport of tea helps feed nearly a tenth of the people, according to the Asian Development Bank. Yet China's re-emergence as the world's leading tea exporter invokes a centuries-old pattern: the British East India Company, which bought its tea from China, held a monopoly on supplying Britain until 1834. Only when that monopoly was broken did other countries become big exporters. The saying "I wouldn't do that for all the tea in China" came to mean a refusal to do something even for a large and valuable payment. The history of tea itself reaches back to ancient times in China. The earliest known literary references date back nearly 5,000 years, when Emperor Shen Nung is said to have discovered the infusion when leaves dropped into his hot water by chance. Green tea is widely believed to have some medical benefits. Black tea, which may have similar benefits, is used in everything from Darjeeling to Earl Grey and is made from the leaves of the same tea plants as green tea, though processed differently. But after millennia of popularity, tea consumption in China is growing by only 2 percent a year, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. By contrast, Chinese figures show tea production rising 8.7 percent last year and rapidly accelerating as recently planted tea bushes reach maturity and as inefficiently managed, state-owned farms are turned over to output-conscious entrepreneurs. For the last three years, Beijing has set as its
