CTC tea enters China market

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Tea major Amalgamated Plantations Private Limited (APPL) has joined hands with a Chinese tea buyer to sell CTC tea in China. The tea is being sold as milk tea in tea parlours in China, where tea-based drinks are popular among consumers.

 

Tea Board of India has set a fresh annual export target of 15 million kg of black tea to China in the next couple of years. CTC teas are in huge demand in China and they are ready to import a large quantity.

 

Crush, tear, curl (CTC) is a method of processing black tea in which the leaves are passed through a series of cylindrical rollers with hundreds of sharp teeth that crush, tear and curl the tea into small, hard pellets. This tea is mostly made in the plain areas of Assam, West Bengal, North and South India.

 

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), China is responsible for the accelerated growth in global tea output, as production increased more than double from 1.17 million tonnes in 2007 to 2.44 million tonnes in 2016.

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