Ooty Tea

Ooty Tea Ooty Tea - Brewing Social ResponsibiliTea! Large commercial plantations developed to maximize tea production.

History:

Farmers in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu, mostly of the Badagas linguistic group, have been producing tea for more than two hundred years, but the history of tea in India can be traced back even further. Tea is mentioned in the ancient epics of India, written around 750 BCE, and was thought even then to have powerful medicinal and restorative properties. In the hills around Ooty, m

odern tea production began with the expansion of the British East India Company, in the 1800s. Factories were built to process, and blend teas for export. In order to keep up with industrialism, local farmers began to sell their green leaves (the original crop) to factories, middlemen, and large corporate plantations for processing for much less profit, and for prices price that never took into account seasonal changes like the effects of the monsoon. After the British left India (and the Nilgiris) in 1947, the corporate structure they put in place for tea production remained. Modernity arrived in India, and all industries were subject to its changes. But small farmers are still being paid less and less for their tea crop—while Nilgiri teas are being used to create many different blends of teas around the world. Most small farmers are in debt to moneylenders, and live hand to mouth. Many are giving up the profession altogether, because there is no money to be made in producing tea. The Badagas farmers still use traditional agricultural methods, which mean no chemicals are used in the production of tea. The Nilgiri teas they produce remain as the most flavourful and aromatic in the world—as evidenced by the fact that they are routinely used to make blends like English breakfast, and Earl Grey—but at Ooty Tea, we want to give the credit back to the farmers. They are a testament to the freshness, and flavour of the tea we produce.

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