More and more premium teas contain other agricultural ingredients that are essential to their differentiation: flower buds and petals, spices, herbs, fruit leaves and peel, scents, extracts, and oil essences.
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Nicaragua was the world’s 18th biggest exporter of coffee in 2020 and in 2023/24 is set to produce 2.7 million 60-kg bags, about the same as the year before. Read more
Catering to the coffee capsule industry's continual need for improved solutions and top quality, IMA Coffee has launched SYNKRO... Read more
Single-serve coffee capsules (a.k.a. pods) proved a success with consumers when they first appeared in the 1990s, and their popularity has increased phenomenally since that time. Read more
Since starting out as a barista in San Diego in 1988, Giuliano has become a master of all trades in coffee — roaster, cupper, manager, buyer, entrepreneur, and educator. Read more
The state of Assam in India’s northeast is where the nation’s tea industry began. India’s first tea estate and first tea research station were established there during British colonial days and continue to operate today. Read more
Since 2017, Colombini has been distributing the innovative Degassing system®, produced by BMM Technology, the first to use high vacuum technology to accelerate degassing. Read more
Customers crave information. That’s one lesson of the phenomenal development of the coffee world over the past 40 years. Read more
Of India’s three best-known tea origins, Nilgiris gets less attention than its northern rivals Assam and Darjeeling. Read more
Europe’s Green Deal is a big deal for the hundreds of millions of farmers, cooperatives, and companies around the world that sell agricultural goods into the European Union. Read more
Developing a great tea is partly an art: picking the right ingredients and combining them in the right proportions to please the palate. Read more
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