TEA

Tea is most popular of all drinks. Now a day’s our daily business starts with a cup of tea. It has become as indispensable as man’s food. Its appeal to the people food.  Its appeal to the people habituated to it great. It is remedy of lethargy .It refreshes the mind and provides energy. Taking tea twice is a common phenomenon of our day to day life. It grows 4 to 5 feet high. Its twigs are pruned.

Tea was first grown in china. It was first used as medicine later on it is used as drink. Now it grown in many countries.

Tea grown best in hot and moist climate. It needs heavy rainfall but it grows where rain water does not stand at all. So the slopes of hills and mountains are the best places for the cultivation of tea. It is one of the cash crops of Bangladesh. It is not allowed to grow more than five feet.

The tea plants are planted in rows when tea plants are four years old. Leaves and buds are taken from then. There are four picking a year.  Young leaves and buds make the best kind of tea. They are gathered by hand. They are dried in the air and heated in fire. Then it is packed and sent to the market.

Preparation of tea is very simple. Some quantity of tea leaves is kept in boiling water for three to five minutes. Sugar and milk are then mixed with it. Then it becomes a drink.

Tea is a stimulant drink. When we are tired it soother our nerves.

Tea is a popular drink. It has got certain uses and abuses. Too much spoil appetite and tells upon the stomach. Some people suffer from different stomach diseases as they are indicted to tea.

Lot of people are engaged in tea production. So it soles unemployment problem of the country to some extent.

The quality of Bangladesh tea is well admired by the people abroad. This is the second crop which earns foreign currency for the country. Hence tea production and marketing common drink.  Wherever a man goes, he is offered a cup of tea. But too Mach tea drinking is bad; it takes away appetite