Malawi Tea Industry: History, Current Status, Research and Future Prospects

摘要：

1.1 History of tea in Malawi Tea was first introduced in Malawi in 1878 by the British missionaries.Commercial tea cultivation, however, was started in 1891 by Mr Henry Brown, a Scottish, who came to try out tea cultivation in Malawi after his coffee business had collapsed in Ceylon due to Coffee Berry disease.The first tea estate was planted at Thornwood, in Mulanje district but commercial cultivation of tea later spread to the adjacent Thyolo district.Tea was later planted at Kavuzi in Nkhata Bay in the northern part of Malawi.Later tea cultivation spread to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.The source of the planting materials was mainly seeds, collected by the early planters most probably from China and India.

作者: Albert G.Changaya Nicholas Mphangwe

作者单位: Tea Research Foundation of Central Africa, P O Box 51, Mulanje, Malawi

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: International Tea Symposium 2014(ITS 2014)(国际茶叶学术研讨会)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 123-132

在线出版日期: 2014-09-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）