Sentinel Digital Desk
1. Tea fields employ over a fifth of Assam's population. This is a big population whose sole source of income is tea production.
2. After China, Assam is the world's second-largest producer of tea. Assam sends a significant amount of its tea to countries including Russia, the United States, Australia, Iran, and many more.
3. Assam is home to the ingenious Camellia sinensis var. Assamica tea bush.
4. Assam's environment is ideal for tea production, and tea bushes cover about 304 thousand hectares of land.
5. Assam produces more than 500 million kg of tea every year, and barely 10 per cent is consumed inside.
6. Many morning tea mixes have Assam tea as the major ingredient.
In the upper Brahmaputra Valley, Robert Bruce discovered tea plants growing wild in 1823. Soon after, the British had a significant interest in tea plantations in Assam, and the Assam Company was formed in 1839 to take over the East India Company's Administration's experimental ownership over the tea gardens that had been constructed in Assam up to that point.
Along with English Breakfast tea, it is frequently sold as breakfast tea. The tea's body is brisk, malty, and robust, with vivid colour, making it ideal for a morning cup. Assam tea's aroma and flavour pair well with a variety of breakfast foods from throughout the world, making it an ideal breakfast beverage.
Assam tea is divided into two types: Orthodox and CTC. Orthodox tea is a higher-quality tea that is rolled entirely by hand to retain the aroma and flavour. CTC stands for crush, tear, and curl, which is how the product is made. Unlike traditional tea, the leaves are crushed, torn, and lastly curled and rolled into tiny pellets by a machine.