. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . Tea Hedges in Yen do, Japan : -3. Field of Smooth Cayenne Pineapples in Hawaii BEVERAGES 71 the production of tea and the exports from that countryamount to 190,000,000 pounds of black tea annually. Thetotal exports of tea from tea-producing countries are about810,000,000 pounds per year. Tea-producing countries standin the following order from the standpoint of the amountof tea produced: British India, Ceylon, China, Dutch EastIndies, Formosa, Japan, and Si


. Tropical agriculture; the climate, soils, cultural methods, crops, live stock, commercial importance and opportunities of the tropics . Tea Hedges in Yen do, Japan : -3. Field of Smooth Cayenne Pineapples in Hawaii BEVERAGES 71 the production of tea and the exports from that countryamount to 190,000,000 pounds of black tea annually. Thetotal exports of tea from tea-producing countries are about810,000,000 pounds per year. Tea-producing countries standin the following order from the standpoint of the amountof tea produced: British India, Ceylon, China, Dutch EastIndies, Formosa, Japan, and Singapore. Tea leaves are picked from 10 to 25 times a year. InCeylon a picking occurs every 10 to 12 days. Tea, like manyother tropical plants, shows at intervals an unusually vigorousgrowth in which fresh leaves are developed very periods of unusually active growth are known as the highest grades of tea only the tip of the actively grow-ing shoot and one or two of the youngest leaves are few older and coarser leaves go into the cheaper tea leaves are brought from the field by pickers and atonce undergo a withering proc


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