🔆 Tea

📍 Temperature
✅ 25-35°C

📍 Rainfall
✅ >150 cm

📍 Soil Conditions
✅ Well-drained, deep friable loams or forest soils, rich in organic water

📍 Geographical Distribution
✅ Undulating topography of hilly areas and well-drained soils in humid and sub-humid tropics and sub-tropics
- Assam, West Bengal (Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Bihar districts)
- Lower slopes of Nilgiri and Cardamom hills in Tamil Nadu

📍 Key Features
✅ Plantation crop
✅ Black tea leaves – fermented
✅ Green tea leaves – unfermented
✅ Rich content of caffeine and tannin
✅ Indigenous crop of hills in Northern China
✅ India – started in the 1840s in Brahmaputra Valley
✅ 28% of the world’s production

Mapping upsc & PSC

🔆 Tea

📍 Temperature
✅ 25-35°C

📍 Rainfall
✅ >150 cm

📍 Soil Conditions
✅ Well-drained, deep friable loams or forest soils, rich in organic water

📍 Geographical Distribution
✅ Undulating topography of hilly areas and well-drained soils in humid and sub-humid tropics and sub-tropics
- Assam, West Bengal (Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, and Cooch Bihar districts)
- Lower slopes of Nilgiri and Cardamom hills in Tamil Nadu

📍 Key Features
✅ Plantation crop
✅ Black tea leaves – fermented
✅ Green tea leaves – unfermented
✅ Rich content of caffeine and tannin
✅ Indigenous crop of hills in Northern China
✅ India – started in the 1840s in Brahmaputra Valley
✅ 28% of the world’s production

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