Tea is a regular export item for Bangladesh, but due to slow growth in production, the country's tea exports have declined. However, organic tea has a great future in this regard. Exploring the underlying factors for the adoption of organic tea farming has great potential for the development of...

Tea plantations were a major industry which played an important role in the development of Assam in particular and North East India in general. The northern bank of the River Brahmaputra which came under the Colonial rule lately also witnessed the same. The paper presents the history of the...

The aim of this article is to explain the state of human rights of tea plantation workers as often been described as pathetic, but no concerted effort have yet been undertaken to promote the human right condition as a whole in the tea plantation areas of Sylhet. The first tea garden was...

Economic historian Robert Allen observed that during the Industrial Revolution, the British working class experienced a period of stagnant real wages. This has led many historians to investigate changes in the diet of the working class during that time. While there has been a focus on the entire...

In Bangladesh, tea is a cash crop that significantly benefits both our economy and food security. Hence, the study aimed to assess the present pattern of tea production and the impacts of rainfall patterns on tea yield and made tea quality. The empirical data was collected from ten tea gardens...

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effect of fermentation degree on total phenolic content (TPC), individual catechins, gallic acid, theaflavins (TFs), caffeine content, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity in teas. Green tea, black tea and oolong tea (partially oxidized 7...

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effect of fermentation degree on total phenolic content (TPC), individual catechins, gallic acid, theaflavins (TFs), caffeine content, antioxidant and antimicrobial activity in teas. Green tea, black tea and oolong tea (partially oxidized 7...

Milk tea is a well-known beverage that has been popular since 2011. The study investigates the factors that affect the consumer’s loyalty wherein consumer satisfaction and service quality are involved. Including the designs, tastes of milk tea, right measurement of ingredients, quality...

In a continuous production line, most of the machinery requires maintenance to ensure that they are working properly since the breakdown in one machine stops the whole production line. Therefore, preventive maintenance is always scheduled to ensure that machine parts are replaced and maintained....

"In Plantation Worlds, Maan Barua interrogates debates on planetary transformations through the histories and ecologies of plantations. Drawing on long-term research spanning fifteen years, Barua presents a unique ethnography attentive to the lives of both people and elephants amidst tea...

Till the 16th century tea was herbal drink which was as only known to the People of China, Tibet, Magnolia, Thailand and Japan. But the European merchants introduced it to the global world and brought tremendous changes to its taste and flavour. Though the Asian leaf was quite unknown to England...

The study revealed that tea cultivation is labor intensive practice and it contributes more than 50 per cent to the total establishment cost, and when we focus on variable cost; it shows that cost of fertilizer plays an important role. In value chain analysis, it is clear that producers price in...

This short case describes a famous experiment conducted by Sir Ronald A. Fisher and colleagues to test Dr. B. Muriel Bristol's claim that she could tell "only by tasting" whether milk or tea was poured first into her cup. Using hypothesis testing, students must answer the question of how many...

Purpose - This research is designed to optimize the business process of a green tea dealer, who is a key supply chain partner of the Sri Lankan tea industry. The most appropriate trips for each vehicle in multiple trip routing systems are identified to minimize the total cost by considering the...

Tea plantation sector which requires labour throughout the year, the nature of work needs and the involvement of both the male and female labour force. Plucking of tea leaves is an important activity and is a specialised job done by the female workforce in India. The tea plantation workers come...

Development of any region depends economic condition of the region. Most of the rural areas of our country depends on different types of agriculture for their livelihood. Assam is the highest producer of Tea in our country India. In Assam Tingkhong taluk of Dibrugarh district contributed a huge...

This paper explores how UK-based companies deal with their responsibility to respect the human rights of Assam (India) tea plantations workers. Using publicly available corporate reports and other documents, it investigates how companies approach, and communicate on, their potential human rights...

Farmers' associations play an important role to help members increase their access to supports of information, capital, and technology; bring benefits to members; and partly promote production, enhance productivity, and increase income. This paper systematizes the theoretical foundation and...

The present study aims at estimating compound annual growth rate of tea in the state of Assam and Sonitpur district of Assam. The study was based on secondary data, which were collected from various published and unpublished sources. The data related to area, production and productivity of green...

Soil erosion is one of the most devastating problems in Sri Lanka, which threatens the sustainability of Agriculture. To design future policy and effective outreach, this study examines the factors behind farmers’ decision making attitude of soil conservation. The study was conducted in...

This paper sheds light on workplace peer effects by analyzing an experiment at a tea estate in Malawi. We randomly allocated tea-harvesting workers to fields and find strong evidence of positive effects from working near higher-ability peers. Our analy­sis shows that increasing the average of...

This paper studies workplace peer effects by randomly varying work assignments at a tea estate in Malawi. We find that increasing mean peer ability by 10 percent raises productivity by 0.3 percent. This effect is driven by the responses of women. Neither production nor compensation...

Increasing consumer awareness on sustainable and healthy food choices gave rise to a growing demand for organic tea in the past decades. Most of this demand is met by imports from developing countries. This article examines the main factors affecting the choice of farm households to adopt...

The tea cultivation highly depends on the prevailing weather conditions and is extremely sensitive to climate variability and changes both short and long term. The excessive rainfall and high temperature can cause the low productivity and low quality of the tea. This study has attempted to...