Tea Trivia

The Scottish Botanist/Adventurer, Robert Fortune, obtained some of the closely guarded tea seeds and made notes on tea cultivation. As various experiments of growing tea in India were attempted, many of these failed due to bad soil selection and incorrect planting techniques. Finally, after years of trial and error, the tea plantations in India and other parts of Asia flourished.

Today, tea is grown on tea estates, and majority of tea is grown in China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka. The best climates for growing tea are tropical or semi-tropical. Tea can be grown on soil that is not fit for growing much of anything else. The leaves are Plucked at just right moment decided by the tea Estate manager, and it is been sent for processing to tea factory

The tea Plucking period in North East of India is from March to end of November