Brief Information to Tea Producton Process

Here are the list of complete process involved in making of Tea:

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1. Plucking

• Only young tender shoots are hand plucked when they are ready

• Tea bushes are plucked every 6-8 days based on the season.

• Plucking begings in the month of March and

• More than 20,000 individually hand plucked shoots are used to make 1 KG of fine tea.

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2. Withering

• After plucking, the plucked leaves are delivered to the factory for measure the weight & send to the withering process.

• Main aim of withering is to reduce moisture content of leaf and soften it.

• Tea leaves are then spread out on a wide tray of wire mesh, hot air blowers are used to drive out moisture.

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3. Rolling

• Mechanical action are used on withered leaves and loaded into rollers where for twisting.

• This process is carefully monitored such that style of leaf is maintained and overheating must not take place.

• Green color of the leaf is replaced by brown coppery colored texture in process of rolling.

• Premium quality green and white teas are generally manually selected and hand rolled.

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4. Fermentation

• Fermentation is the process during which the Polyphenols in leaf are oxidized in presence of the enzymes

• Fermentation starts just after cell rupture.

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5. Drying

• Fermented tea leaves are dried before it goes for processing of packaging

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