This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...

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...

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...

Tourism, one of the fastest growing service economy sectors, has contributed directly as well indirectly for the socio-economic development of destinations around the globe. Novel paradigm of tea tourism has been identified as one niche Tourism segment enriched with potentiality to enhance the...

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...

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...

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...

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 studies the birth of the market for Japanese black tea, its decline, and its rebirth. Currently, the black tea consumed in Japan is mostly imported. But the production of Japanese black tea has gradually increased, and more than 200 tons was produced in 2016. We investigate the...

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...

"Liberalization, Privatization and Globalization policy was advocated in India in 1991 under the supervision of P.V. Narasimha Rao, the then Prime Minister of India. As a consequence, the tea plantation industry was largely affected. It has confronted difficult competition because of the...

Agricultural production in the face of climate change requires a climate-smart transformation and reorientation at multiple scales. Vietnam is one of the developing countries that is agriculture-based and severely affected by climate change; therefore it is crucial that the agricultural system...

West Bengal is the second largest producer of tea in India contributing one fourth of India's tea productions. It has about 450 tea gardens, which employ about 6 lakh workers and it's estimated that more than 2.5 million people are dependent on the tea industry. The socioeconomic condition of...

Nowadays, the international trade in agricultural products is very well-organized, largely controlled by multinational supermarket chains. Because of increased consumer knowledge, the supermarket's demand for quality of agricultural products, which are based on the consumer needs in developed...

The importance of employee performance for the success of the organization cannot be underestimated. Recently most of organizations in the current competitive society are fully aware of finding ways to achieve high profits by adjusting the performance of their employees. When consider the tea...