General View of Turkish Tea Industry
This paper reports the general view of Turkish tea industry from past to future.Tea cultivation and production in Turkey was initiated in the early years of Turkish Republic and carried out in a microclimate throughout the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey.After successful results had been obtained, the region extending from Trabzon to the Georgia border was allocated to tea agriculture.In order to supply better service State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) called CAYKUR was established in 1971 and was fully authorized as a state monopoly in the tea business.In 1984, with the abolishment of the monopoly in the tea sector, private enterprises were also given the rights of procurement,processing and marketing.Although the tea business in Turkey is a relatively new activity compared with the other producer countries, tea cultivation and the industry have shown very important improvement since 1971.As an agricultural product tea plays a considerable economic role in Turkey, especially Eastern Black Sea Region.While the amount of processed tea production was below 210 tons in 1950s, this figure has reached more than thousand times of it in recent years.Today, Turkey holds a significant place among the worlds largest tea producer countries with its production share of more than 5％.According to the FAO statistics, among tea producer countries Turkey ranks fifth with its 225,000 tones/year tea production after China, India, Kenya and Sri Lanka (Figure.1).
Imdat Sutluoglu Saziye Ilgaz
General Directorate of CAYKUR, Rize 53080, Turke Technology Department, CAYKUR Ataturk Tea Research Institute, Rize 53100, Turkey
国际会议
International Tea Symposium 2014(ITS 2014)(国际茶叶学术研讨会)
杭州
英文
160-164
2014-09-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）