In a nation obsessed with coffee, Elizeth van der Vorst of Amigos do Chá is revolutionizing the landscape, bridging cultures and promoting wellness through the introduction of premium Indian teas.
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South America
Tea in Ecuador: From the Amazon Rainforest to the World
Explore the unique tea in Ecuador from Hacienda Sangay, the only tea farm located in the Amazon rainforest, producing premium black tea, rooted in culture and sustainability
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When Green Tea Came To Peru… and Stayed
“Peruvian tea is on a trajectory of growth and improvement both nationally and internationally. With an appropriate strategy that emphasizes quality, authenticity, and sustainability, there is significant potential to increase its presence and prestige in the global market.”
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Argentina’s Matcha Style Powdered Tea (Spanish version)
En las tierras misionales existen muchos cultivos diferentes, desde los más exóticos y novedosos como la moringa hasta los tradicionales e históricos como la yerba mate y el té. El cultivo del té ha dado lugar a nuevas prácticas culturales y de procesamiento más allá del té negro y los […]
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In our Tea Discovery series, we make our acquaintance with Argentinian powdered tea, resulting from experiments by farmer Mario Paredes. “Tea plantations were being destroyed because black tea had stopped being profitable.
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“Hello Love” the Teas of El Salvador
Marcela Figueroa held a vision and a mission to convince the people of El Salvador to become tea drinkers. Twelve years ago, she began experimenting with local herbs and flowers in blends to meet the demands of consumers seeking health benefits. Four years later she started LAFIROA tea to realize her vision. Marcela spoke with South American correspondent Horacio Bustos about her award-winning teas.
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Argentina’s Catalyst for Tea Innovation
Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) is a cutting-edge organization in the Agro-technological sector in agricultural research, extension, and innovation. The institute is a decentralized state organization with operational and financial autarchy, associated with the Ministry of Agroindustry. INTA operates in the five ecoregions of Argentina (Northwest, Northeast, Cuyo, Pampeana, and Patagonia) through a structure that includes: a central headquarters, 15 regional centers, 52 experimental stations, six research centers, 22 research institutes, and more than 350 Extension Units.
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La Ruta del Té
Knowledge of how tea is grown and processed came naturally to fourth-generation Argentine grower Carolina Okulovich but she observed that was not so for the tourists and visitors to the farm who found tea cultivation and processing fascinating. That was how the idea arose to create a learning experience for visitors touring the 15 hectares known as La Ruta del Té.
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Cultivating Tea in Colombia
Tea in Colombia was first planted 75 years ago. Joaquín Llano González and his son, Alberto Llano Buenaventura, became the first commercial tea growers and their farms La Sofía and Hacienda Himalaya, located in the mountains of the western Andes above the Pacific Coast, continue producing Colombia’s sole domestically grown brands.
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Tea from the Heights of Bolivia
The Bolivian government has invested in tea production as part of its Poverty Alleviation Program leading to the creation of ecological brands pioneered by ChaiMaté Tea, an IMO certified supplier producing teas competitive for export.
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Harvest Review: Tea in the Cordillera
Chileans drink an average of 427 cups of tea a year, more than any South American country and almost as much per capita as the Chinese, placing them among the top 20 tea consuming countries.
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Harvest Review Argentina
Uniquely positioned in the southern hemisphere where the harvest will soon be underway, Argentina is one of the world’s great tea producing nations. The first few months of the November 2019 harvest were very rainy. Growers report achieving normal volumes of good quality black tea for export.
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Peruvian Stories
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary […]
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Origins: Obaatian, the Brazilian Mestizo Tea
It’s dawn and Elizabete Ume Shimada is already behind her sewing machine. Every day, this 90-year-old woman wakes at 4:30 does her daily gym, has a simple breakfast and goes to her post at the front balcony of the house, to work on new bags for the lychee harvest. From […]
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Harvest Review: Argentina
The harvest is just beginning in Argentina, the southernmost tea growing region in the world. This year November temperatures were unusually cool at the beginning of spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
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