Start a Tea Business with Tea blending Techniques

 

(257). Start  a Tea Business with Tea blending Techniques 

A good cup of tea is really much more than a beverage, it can be a warm welcome, an invitation to relax and enjoy a special moment of life. It can lift your spirits and soothe your soul. It is, quite simply, one of those unique pleasures for which there is no substitute.Tea is a universal food product known to every one and relished by almost all in this world. Tea is a fast moving consumer product next to the staple foods like wheat and rice in any country. Tea is good refreshment to all young and old and thus has great potential in income generation. There is ample scope with variety of potential ideas to make money in this tea industry.

Make Money with Tea Knowledge

Right from the land lord or the tea planter up to the final tea consumer, there are business opportunities.Every one can make a reasonable quantum of money with the knowledge and skill about the tea. Tea has a lot of segments of business to travel from the growing plant till it is consumed as a drink by the final tea lover.

We shall give you thebusiness opportunities for making money in the reverse order. That is to say,you will learn the techniques of making money as a tea drink maker or a tea barmanager initially and slowly we shall shift towards the tea blend supplier ortea packer.

Make Money with a Tea shop

You know about various bakery products, ready to eat food packs, sweets and savories, many other fruit juices and cool drinks being served at tea shops. These are all ready made foods being prepared at the back ground and supplied with the tea that is made instantly on the order.

There could be simple foodpreparation like sandwiches with application of creams or mashed vegetables orsimple frying process with spicy ingredients to give more life to the readymadefoods. 

Make Money with Tea Drinks

  

Now, your turn has come to make a good tea for refreshing the customers. You have black tea dusts or orange pekoe leaves for making a nice tea.

1. You need to boil water and pour into the cloth bag sieve containing tea dusts. This will allow strong tea extract to trickle down into a vessel. If you want you can take a strong extract also by passing the golden liquid again into the tea dust in the bag.It is mixed with milk and sugar in appropriate proportions. The tea is ready.You can serve in beautiful tea mugs.

2. In a tea pot, you can take the tea leaves and pour the boiling water and keep it closed aside for about three minutes. The tea extract is decanted and mixed with milk and sugar as much as liked by the consumer. Serve the tea in tea mugs with necessary side dishes.

3. There is more number ofways to make teas with or without spicy ingredients like ginger, cardamom, lime,mint, cinnamon and clove. You can add mint and lime also; of course, all therespecial teas are made independently with sugar and without milk.

Make Money with Tea Blends

Tea blending is mixing of tea dusts and leaves at suitable proportions so that the resulting blend gives special taste and economy in making of the tea drink. You will have a number of tea dusts grades and leaf sizes, so that each will have its own unique taste.But blending them in some proportions will give some special taste. You know adding of spices will give some extra ordinary exuberant taste. You need to identify and select such blends and keep it ready for the consumer’s demand. When you have unique tastingblends you will have more number of target customers. They will visit morefrequently to pay more money with their friends and family. Needless to say thesweets and savories of various kinds will be tasted by such groups to add moreincome to you.

 

Make Tea Packs to Make Money

When you know, a scientific tea blending, a technique that gives good color, taste, strength and economy,you will go for making tea packs. This could be dip tea bags or tea dust or leaf packing. You will start with a good simple attractive brand and pack and market in the department stores and tea shops.

Make Bulk Teas to Make Money

Now you have every chance tomake big money by selling bulk teas of such good blends to big tea merchantswho will in turn pack and sell. You will buy teas of all kinds in bigproportions, test them, and taste them to identify their characters. You willuse them to make special blends according to the scientific tea blendingformula that guarantee best teas for the tea lovers.

Make Big Money with Big Tea Business

Now you can start export to various destinations to make money in big volumes. Tea is a drink loved by all.Tea is a product having good commercial value. Tea business is a unique and growing business. You can start and establish this business with more knowledge about tea.

Now knowing about tea,blending and marketing is made easy with good tea books. Just you need to swim along the flow to make money in this great tea business. 

How to Become Successful In Tea Business? 

Tea Plantation Management:

There are two aspects in tea business. One is cultivation of tea with processing in the factory. This is called as Tea Plantation Management. Tea Plantation Management includes the cultivation of tea crop till harvest of green tea leaves and manufacturing of processed teas for the market.

There has been continuous research and development as for as the cultivation practices are concerned. The quality and growth of plantation depends on the agro climatic and cultural practices adopted in the estate. The final characters of the processed tea leaf or dust depend on the tea processing in the factories.

The basic products for the commercial tea business are tea dusts and leaves which are the final products in the tea factories.

Tea Business Management:

‘Tea Business’ starts from the time when the processed tea leaves and dusts come out of the factory. Production of tea rests with the planter’s management portfolio while the tea business management lies with the tea traders who buy teas from hundreds of such tea planters. Tea business has special elements of management and exceptional functions as the raw tea products from the factories are to be converted and presented in a manner that they are easily accepted and enjoyed by the consuming people.

Identification of Best Teas:

The tea dusts and leaves coming out of various factories are not same in quality. They have varied characters and un-uniform functions while making the final drinks. There comes the need of special tasks and responsibilities to identify the best quality teas that gives good color, taste and flavor. Identification of best teas requires some definite scientific methodology other than the traditional tea tasting. 

Tea Blending for Consistency:

When you have such knowledge, you will become successful in tea procurement. A little more of knowledge in tea blending makes the final product always uniform and acceptable by the target group of consumers. You need to pack them in attractive brands and sell them with innovative marketing techniques suitable to the area of operation.

Tea Business: How to Become Successful In Tea Business?

1. The very first basic requirement is Knowledge of scientific tea testing, tasting and blending. This is acquirable through a book titled Tea Taster: How to become a Tea Taster? This book can give you all that you require in this business.

2. The second one is participating in a Training Program in Tea Business Management. You will gain practical knowledge in identification of best teas and blending them to suit the market needs. You gain more confidence.

3. Third idea is Practicing to ‘buy guaranteed super blends from the trainers’ till such time you gain confidence in identification and blending procedures. This is to tide over the starting trouble and smooth ride in the trouble some markets. You will just ‘buy pack and sell’ to save time and money and get a name in the consumer market.

You will get all the three one by one and become highly successful in this tea business.

All the information regarding tea business  can be provided through  these websites

Tea Board of India : www.teaboard.gov.in

Guwahati Tea Auction Centre : www.assamteaexchange.com

Siliguri Tea Auction Centre : www.siliguriteaauction.com

J Thomas & Co. Pvt Ltd : www.jthomas-india.com

Tea Research Association: www.tocklai.net

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