New Report on Gender-based Abuse in Tea | Tea Price Protests in India Continue | High Temps Lower Yields of Black Sea Tea

HEAR THE HEADLINES – New Report Examines the Causes of Gender-based Abuse in Tea | Case Study of James Finlay Kenya following BBC expose | Tea Price Protests in India Continue for Third Week | High Temps Lower Yields of Türkiye’s Black Sea Tea

| FEATURE INTRO – This week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, inscribed as a World Heritage site the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in China’s Yunnan Province.

Ancient Forests are a Model for Sustainable Tea Production – UNESCO inscribed five well-preserved ancient forests on its World Heritage List, totaling 1.2 million tea trees on Jingmai Mountain. Two rivers and steep valleys bound the 1,200 acres (18,000 mu) under tea. Jingmai is China’s 57th World Heritage Site.

The forest dates to the Quaternary Ice Age. Yunnan is where tea trees likely first evolved. Ancient cultivars growing there rise to 30 feet with crowns spanning 36 feet with trunks several feet in diameter. The oldest have survived 3,200 years.

The inscription, one of 41 announced, recognizes the efforts of the Bulang [Blang] and Dai tribes responsible for devising and maintaining forest cultivation of more than a million tea trees for over a thousand years. The model they created, climbing high into the limbs to harvest leaves from trees untreated by chemicals, predates tea gardens and plantations and survives profitably today.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy