ARAWANE Tea Brand 41022 the vert tea factory price

Package Type

Box, Bag, Bulk, Wooden Case, Gift Box, Customized

Processing Type

Stir-Fried

Selling countries

western africa

Others

Compared to earlier centuries, the tea's movement from China to Africa in 45 days is fast and the quantities have become much larger. When tea first arrived in the Sahel in the nineteenth century, it came in small amounts and often had travelled as long as two or three years. The aroma of the long journey in the storerooms of ships, in warehouses and on camel back had inscribed itself in the taste of the beverage that Malians came to love and associate with tea. The journey began in the family gardens in China's mountainous interior and continued with human carriers or on boats along rivers southwards to the coast near Canton where the Chinese emperor had his agents, the co-hongs, who were to control the export trade with Europeans.

From the sixteenth century onwards, European sailing ships took green tea to Europe. The Portuguese were first, then came the Dutch and in the seventeenth century also the British. At first, Europeans were not interested in tea at all, as they were looking for silk, porcelain and spices but soon got to love the new Chinese beverage. Soon, also Swedish, Prussian, Belgian, Danish and later, after independence, also American ships were on the spot to trade in tea.