| The fertility of the red soil and the regular rains of the Corrientes region create the ideal conditions for the cultivation of tea. In an effort to protect the soil against erosion, tea is planted along curved terraces and protected from the wind by hedges. Unlike Asian and African countries, where the young sprouts are handpicked, in Argentina mechanical harvesting is the rule, done mainly with high-clearance tractors that are driven along the straight rows of tea bushes. The tea cultivated here, a hybrid of the Indian Assam variety, produces only a low yield (64,000 metric tons per year). Harvested in summer, it complements the large winter production of maté tea, a type of holly, also known as «Jesuit tea.» Today tea is cultivated in forty-five countries; India, China, and Sri Lanka alone provide 70 percent of the world’s tea production. |
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