Chapter 1204 Tea Market
India has proved with facts that greatness is achieved when there are many people. Even if it is difficult to produce good bamboo shoots from bad bamboo, having more bamboo shoots can make up for the disadvantage in quality to a certain extent, at least it is inseparable from people. Addressing rigid needs such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, this is the charm of a market with a population of 300 million.
There are countless good things at the East Africa World Expo, and cars are just an appetizer. At this East Africa World Expo, there are thousands of technological products provided by East Africa alone, and including other products, there are even more There are tens of thousands of pieces.
In addition to East Africa, the exhibits from other countries also have their own styles and characteristics, attracting the attention of many tourists and businessmen.
Far Eastern Empire National Pavilion.
"This is a kind of tea produced in the southeastern mountains of the Far Eastern Empire. Compared with our East African tea, it is sweeter but lacks the aroma. However, both have their own flavors..." A tea from Bagamoyo The East African said after taking a sip of the free tea.
There is no doubt that the tea of the Far Eastern Empire is very popular among the people of East Africa, and it has a large tea-drinking population base in East Africa.
Although East Africa is a major tea producer in the world, it cannot get rid of the huge disadvantage of a small number of East African tea varieties. After decades of accumulation, East Africa has only screened and cultivated less than twenty varieties. The taste is relatively good and suitable for tea varieties grown in the country.
However, there are nearly a hundred varieties of tea from the Far Eastern Empire participating in this East African World Expo alone, which greatly satisfied the curiosity and taste buds of the people who came to East Africa.
Among the tea merchants participating in the exhibition, most of them are Anhui tea. It is worth mentioning that due to time constraints, many companies are arriving one after another, so the number of exhibits at the East Africa World Expo continues to increase.
Addras, an East African tea enthusiast, said: "Our country's tea industry only started a few decades ago, while the tea culture and history of the Far Eastern Empire lasted for thousands of years. Therefore, in terms of the number of varieties, it is indeed difficult for East Africa to compete with the Far Eastern Empire." Compared. ”
“Another point is that the climate and geographical complexity of the Far Eastern Empire are far greater than those of our country. This is also the basic advantage of tea variety cultivation, which means there are more possibilities, and the fact is In this way, there are many regional tea varieties in the Far Eastern Empire.”
There are many factors that affect the growth of tea, and the unique geographical advantages of the Far Eastern Empire are one of the important reasons that make the Far Eastern Empire become the world’s tea kingdom.
In comparison, this is also a disadvantage of East Africa. Although the climate in East Africa is suitable for the growth of tea, the microclimate and terrain are not as complex as the Far Eastern Empire.
It can also be said that the development potential of tea planting in East Africa is far less than that of the Far Eastern Empire. The history of tea planting in East Africa is too short, and there are many competitors for tea.
For example, Kenya, the area with the best tea leaves in East Africa, is also the area with the best coffee growing conditions in East Africa. The two beverages are actually competing.
“However, my country’s tea cultivation exceeds that of India. Although India has a history of tea cultivation for hundreds of years, they introduced few varieties and tea-making techniques at that time, and India’s climate and environment are also complex. It’s not as good as ours.”
The history of tea cultivation in India dates back to the 18th century, and it still has a history of hundreds of years. It seems very long, but it is a rising star in this country with a short history in East Africa.
This gap of nearly a hundred years can still be reversed in East Africa in a short period of time through hard work, and this is actually the case.
In 1914, although East African tea exports were still ranked third in the world, the gap with India had been greatly narrowed, and in terms of quantity and quality of varieties, it was second only to the Far Eastern Empire.
"Of course, the most important thing is that the rapid development of industry and science and technology in our country in recent years has made the large-scale and scientific cultivation of tea far surpass that of the Far Eastern Empire and India."
Modern tea cultivation, especially with the With the advent of the industrialization era, the key to whether a product can cover a large area of the international market lies in whether it can achieve large-scale industrial production.
Before the emergence of East Africa, the world's third largest tea producer, India undoubtedly had an absolute advantage in this regard. The situation changed at the beginning of this century. With the explosion of industry and technology in East Africa, the development of the tea industry in East Africa also ushered in a new round of qualitative changes. On the one hand, tea cultivation, planting, picking and other technologies continued to make breakthroughs. The mechanization rate of tea gardens has increased significantly. On the other hand, tea processing has rapidly replaced the original small workshops with more advanced modern factories, which has gained more guarantees in terms of quality and taste, stabilized market sales and consolidated and developed brand image awareness.
Through these years of development, East African tea has established a firm foothold internationally, opening up and stabilizing the long-term development of the Central and Eastern European market, in countries such as Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia. Very popular here.
There is no doubt that the country that has been hardest hit by the rise of tea in East Africa is India, and the competition between the two countries is the most intense.
Although the Far Eastern Empire is the world's largest tea producer, its domestic market is stable and large, but its performance in overseas markets is not outstanding, making it difficult to pose a threat to Indian and East African tea.
And as the third most tea-drinking country in the world after the Far Eastern Empire and the United Kingdom, in addition to its own tea, East Africa will also import a large amount of tea from the Far Eastern Empire to meet its own needs.
Although East Africans certainly do not like drinking tea as much as the British, East African tea lovers are obviously more particular than the British.
After all, East Africa was deeply influenced culturally by the Far Eastern Empire, so its understanding of tea is second only to the people of the Far Eastern Empire.
Although East Africa also produces good tea, the high-quality tea varieties are ultimately insufficient in historical background and cannot fully meet the diverse needs of the tea-drinking people in the country. Therefore, importing tea from the Far Eastern Empire has become inevitable.
As for India, its tea problems are similar to those in East Africa. There are few varieties and the taste is too uniform. Therefore, in the despised chain of tea drinking in East Africa, Indian tea is absolutely at the bottom of the three countries.
This is also easy to understand. Just like in the previous life, Indian tea had an absolute advantage in the international market, but it was extremely difficult for Indian tea to gain recognition from the Far Eastern Empire.
After all, tea culture does not exist in India. It is just a purely tropical cash crop. Although tea cultivation in East Africa also tends to have economic attributes, East African tea culture also exists.
So in the perception of the people in East Africa, tea from the Far Eastern Empire is a high-end product, East Africa is a mid-range product, India is a low-end product, and other countries are completely inferior.
This subjective idea is naturally affected by national sentiment, but it also reflects the tremendous development of East African tea in recent years. After all, East African tea is really a mess, and East Africans cannot shamelessly put the status of their own tea above India.
In contrast, Indians are truly ignorant. They dare to boast more than East Africans. Among the Indian population, their Indian tea is number one in the world. If we only look at the current export volume, This is indeed true, but the large exports are entirely due to the dominance of the British colonial market, rather than the real talent of Indian tea.
And as mentioned before, although tea is one of the important economic crops in East Africa, East Africa has many choices in the field of beverages, which has largely shared East Africa's investment in the tea industry.
In terms of beverages, East Africa has shown an obvious state of diversified development. In the past, the three major traditional beverages in the world, tea, coffee and cocoa, all had corresponding finished products in East Africa, and they all occupied a certain position in the international market. East African coffee, in particular, has enjoyed the fastest rise in reputation in recent years and has quickly captured a large number of markets.
As for other beverages, especially alcohol, soda, various sugar drinks, milk, etc., East Africa is also very outstanding.
Before the outbreak of World War I, East Africa had become the world's second largest producer and consumer of beverages, second only to the United States.
After all, East Africa has only been open for a short period of time, and there is still a certain gap between market activity and the United States, especially in the field of consumption. People in East Africa are obviously not as liberal as Americans.
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