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Small Tea Growers Stage Work Stoppage

West Bengal’s Small Tea Growers (STG) and factory owners continue to struggle over new measures to guarantee tea quality and ensure fair pricing. STG has implemented a work stoppage recently as a result. Factory owners are demanding that at least 65% of the tea brought in for processing consist of finely plucked leaf (two leaves and a bud.) This has become a major point of contention as STG, the tea research association and even Prabir Seal, president of the North Bengal Tea Producers Welfa...

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Can Blossom's MIT-enhanced brew win over skeptical baristas?

Can Blossom's MIT-Enhanced Brew Win Over Skeptical Baristas? Inside the attempt to perfect coffee-making technology By Danielle Sacks Inside a grimy garage off an alleyway in San Francisco’s SOMA district seethes the accouterment of a bootstrapped startup. Filthy frat-house leather couches, stray books with titles like "Emotional Design," and a former NASA engineer jockeying between a circuit board and a laptop. Only the company isn’t trying to build the next app or smart d...

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Rooibos Granted Geographical Indicator Status

Rooibos Granted Geographical Indicator Status By: Dan Bolton | August 4, 2014 SOUTH AFRICA – The European Union has granted South Africa’s Rooibos the coveted Geographical Indicator affording trademark protections worldwide. The decision means that South African Rooibos and Honeybush producers retain exclusive naming rights to these indigenous herbal teas. “No other country can claim or buy or own this terminology in any way. Both teas grow naturally only in South ...

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Food Hotel Thailand 2014 @ Bitec Bangkok

Join us again this year at booth K31 in the biggest hospitality trade exhibition, Food Hotel Thailand 2014 Bitec Exhibition Center, Bangkok from September 10 until 13, 2014. On this occasion, we will showcase a collection of Cafés Richard single origin coffees, fine teas from Ronnefeldt tea-tails artistically prepared by a professional mixologist, UNIC high technology espresso machines and Carimali espresso machines. For more information about the upcoming event contact Khun Mara - mara@pinnacl...

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Darjeeling tea price dips

Darjeeling tea price dips Darjeeling tea prices have fallen by Rs 100 per kg compared to last season, despite production being down by almost 20 per cent . KOLKATA: Darjeeling tea prices have fallen by Rs 100 per kg compared to last season, despite production being down by almost 20 per cent . Prices have dropped as offtake of second flush teas has come down at the auctions and industry attributes this drop to lower purchase by Tata Global Beverages and HUL from the auctions...

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