Economics Chinese tea

1 economics

1.1 production
1.2 trade
1.3 consumption

economics
production

green tea cultivation in china



primary tea processing consists of no roasting, scenting, or spicing.

the highest grades of white tea, yellow tea, , green tea made tender tea shoots picked spring. these young tea shoots may consist of single terminal bud, bud adjacent leaf or bud 2 adjacent unfurled leaves. required leaves equal in length or shorter buds.

the more-oxidized tea—such red or oolong tea—are made more mature leaves. example, anxi tieguanyin (grown in tea region of anxi in fujian), made 1 bud 2 4 leaves.

not high grade green tea made tender tea shoots. highly regarded green tea lu gua pian made more matured leaves.

traditionally these tender tea shoots picked before 5 april, or qingming festival. standard practice start picking when 5% of garden ready, or when tea buds reach size. in tea gardens, tea shoots picked daily, or every 2 days.

trade

the increase in export of green tea china has not been commensurate production. during 2010, china exported 234 m kg of green tea against 163 metric kg in 2001. interestingly, share of export in global market has been found fall 87% 78% between 2003 , 2007. however, in 2010, china contributed 79% of total green tea exported worldwide. .

consumption