Tea in Salem

Tea Cultivation Area & Production in India

State / Districts	Area under tea ( in Th.Hectares)	Production (Million Kgs)
Assam Valley	270.92	581.03
Cachar	33.48	48.02
Total Assam	304.4	629.05
Darjeeling	17.82	8.91
Dooars	72.92	177.85
Terai	49.7	125.34
Total West Bengal	140.44	312.1
Other North Indian States(Includes Tripura,Uttarakhand, Bihar,Manipur,Sikkim,Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh,Nagaland,Meghalaya, Mizoram and Orissa)	12.29	23.92
Total North India	457.13	965.07
Tamil Nadu	69.62	174.71
Kerala	35.01	63.48
Karnataka	2.22	5.52
Total South India	106.85	243.71
All Total	563.98	1208.78

 

 

 

List of Top 10 Tea Producing Countries in the World

Rank	Country	Production 2015 (Metric Tonnes)
1	China	1,640,310
2	India	966,733
3	Kenya	369,400
4	Sri Lanka	340,000
5	Turkey	230,115
6	Vietnam	217,000
7	Iran	158,910
8	Indonesia	150,478
9	Argentina	102,890
10	Japan	85,990

 

 

 

List of the Most Tea Loving Nations of The World

Rank	Country	Annual Per Capita Tea Consumption (in kg)
1	Turkey	7.54
2	Morocco	4.34
3	Ireland	3.22
4	Mauritania	3.22
5	United Kingdom	2.74
6	Seychelles	2.08
7	United Arab Emirates	1.89
8	Kuwait	1.61
9	Qatar	1.6
10	Kazakhstan	1.54

Although Camellia sinensis is the sole tea producing plant in the world, still there are more than hundred different types of tea that people consume. The major types of tea that are popular in the world are:

• White Tea: It is one of the least processed teas, which is traditionally cultivated in China. White tea has the most delicate aroma and evokes fresh and earthy flavors.
• Green Tea: Green tea tends to keep its vital color because of its unoxidized nature. This tea offers a mouthwatering range of flavors that please the tea drinker.
• Oolong Tea: These are semi-oxidized tea with leaves oxidized between 10% and 80%. Oolong tea has the widest array of flavors and can be steeped a number of times to bring a new flavor.
• Black Tea: Black tea is fully oxidized and the most famous of these produced in India. The flavors of black tea can vary with the type of harvest and the storage duration.
• Pu-erh Tea: Pu-erh tea is one of the very few fermented teas that are aged for several years. This type of tea usually has an earthy and mellow taste because of the aging that it undergoes.

With more than 52% of India’s total tea coming from here, Assam is entitled as the largest tea producing state in India. This north-eastern state of India is also deemed as one of largest tea producing regions in the world. The districts in Assam where tea is produced are:

• Lakhimpur
• Kamrup
• Sivasagar
• Goalpara
• Cachar
• Derrang
• Nagaon

 

China has bagged the first position in the list of top tea producing countries in the world. This country produces over 1,000,130 tons of tea annually that amounts to approximately 30-35% of the world’s total tea production. India comes second in the world’s list with over 900,000 tons of annual tea produce.

While tea remains to be the second most loved beverage in the world, the people of Turkey consider it to be the best beverage; thereby, making the country, Turkey the ‘Most Tea-Loving Nation Of The World’. Every citizen in Turkey supposedly drinks 4-5 cups of tea (approximately 6.961oz) on a daily basis. The love for tea is engraved in the Turkish culture and the lives of the Turks wholly revolve around the ingestion of cay (Turkish tea).

Sri Lanka is crowned as the largest tea exporting country in the world. Tea production and export is a big part of Sri Lanka’s economy and constitutes over 2% of the country’s GDP. It has carved a niche in the world tea export market by successfully exporting tea across the globe since 1847. The country produces approximately 327,500 metric tons of tea annually and exports almost 318,329 tons to the world, which gives it a 20% share in the world’s tea export business. The Sri Lankan export business is flourishing at a great pace and adding more than $1.48 billion to the country’s economy annually.