Tea Farming Articles
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Project - Kheojia Assam
Assam is a major producer of tea and silk in the country and earns majority of its income from the same. However, because of its weather, the farmers prefer mono-cropping. Due to this most of the farmers in the state are extremely poor. To combat this problem, SankalpTaru Foundation has initiated Project Kheojia Assam. With our sustainable plantation drive, we have planted saplings of seedless ...
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Project - Tara Tekstil
A feasibility study on Blue Fashion using cultivated seaweed for textile production The goal is to study the feasibility of “Blue Fashion” using seaweed cultivated and harvested in the North Atlantic and process it into seaweed fibres, that can be used in knitted and woven fabric. The study will focus on four specific objectives: Identify and describe the functionalities of using ...
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Cadmium toxicity in plants
Cadmium is a heavy, non-biodegradable metal that is toxic to plants, people, and animals. With increasing pollution and emission of cadmium, its levels in agricultural soils are increasing. The risk to humans is high due to consumption of cadmium-contaminated food. Modern applications of gas analysis and laser measurements are speeding up research in addressing the problem of cadmium stress. ...
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Heterogeneous photodegradation of methylene blue with iron and tea or coffee polyphenols in aqueous solutions
Recently, we developed two new Fenton catalysts using iron (Fe) and spent tea leaves or coffee grounds as raw material. In this study, Fe-to-tea or Fe-to-coffee polyphenol complexes were successfully tested as heterogeneous photo-Fenton catalysts. The photodegradation efficiency of methylene blue solutions with Fe-to-polyphenol complexes was higher than that of homogeneous iron salts in the ...
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Impact of withering process on sensory properties of black tea
Withering is the first step in tea processing and has a significant impact on final product quality. During the tea green leaf withering and its preparation for the next stage of processing (curling), reduction in moisture content of the leaf is accompanied by occurrence of biochemical interactions that play an important role in product quality; its aroma in particular. Air flow rate and ...
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Dynamic uptake of drug norfloxacin from aqueous solution using spent tea leaves as a sorbent
This work describes sorptive removal of antibiotic drug norfloxacin using spent tea leaves (STL) as a cost effective sorbent. The specific surface area (BET) of spent tea leaves was 1.141 m 2 gm –1 . The effect of pH, initial concentration of drug, contact time and particle size on the extent of adsorption were studied. The kinetic uptake data were best interpreted by pseudo second order ...
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Influence of some biological wastes and their combination on growth and reproduction potential of earthworm, Eisenia fetida and their effect on plant growth
Effect on growth and reproduction potential of animal wastes viz., cow, goat, horse and a domestic waste (used tea dust) and their combinations to the earthworm, Eisenia fetida, was studied under laboratory conditions. The effect of above on growth aspects of Bhendi crop was compared with the normal compost individually under green house conditions. The effects on growth were assessed for ten ...
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Farm size and economic efficiency: a case study of tea production in West Bengal
Once tea was the major source of export earnings for India, but now India is trailing behind in the field of tea production and exports. Darjeeling tea is considered as India?s pride and almost entire production are exported. The depressed tea export of India actually caused the breakdown of the tea industry in West Bengal. Under such circumstances, it is appropriate to verify whether the tea ...
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Abamectin in Tea and Tea Liquor Under Northeastern Indian Climatic Conditions
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is the second most consumed beverage after water and about one and a half billion cups of tea is consumed daily all over the world. India is the highest producer of tea in the world. Tea is being cultivated mainly in noreast and south India and is attacked by a variety of pests, wich multiply rapidly, and cultivators apply a combination of several types of pesticides over ...
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Technical efficiency of organic tea smallholding sector in Sri Lanka: a stochastic frontier analysis
Organic tea is emerging as a major farming activity in Sri Lanka. In this paper, using a stochastic frontier analysis, we analyse the technical efficiency of organic tea smallholdings in the mid country wet zone of Sri Lanka. The Cobb-Douglas functional specifications are found to be an adequate representation of the cross-sectional data obtained in 2002. Our results indicate that there is great ...
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