Tagged: yunnan

China's Tea Industry

China grows more tea than any other country by a wide margin and drinks nearly all of it itself, the reverse of the plantation-export model that built India's, Kenya's, and Sri Lanka's crops. How a single state trading monopoly gave way to more than a million small growers with no majority brand, why the country runs on wholesale markets instead of public auctions, and why its fastest-growing tea business now sells the leaf as a drink rather than a commodity.

Climate and the Tea Supply

The canonical reference on how a warming, less predictable climate reaches the tea trade. The plant's physiological limits, the two shapes exposure takes, why a weather shock does not move the price the way it looks like it should, the three adaptation levers and who pays for each, and the pest and insurance gaps still mostly unclosed.