Teaconomics | The Economy of Tea

It’s in your gut

Send your grain across the seas, and in time, profits will flow back to you. But divide your investments among many places, for you do not know what risks might lie ahead. Ecclesiastes 11.1-11.2 Why start with a quote from the Bible and one that …

Go West

No, this has nothing to do with the famous Pet Shop Boys’ song. What? No one else remembers this song? Such a shame. No, this one is not from the Pet Shop Boys but from Talk Talk. Come on guys, know your classics or perhaps …

I began reading The Tea Road by Martha Avery or how China and Russia meet across the steppe (the original subtitle). As could be expected from it, it is far more than a book on tea and contains a lot on Russian-Chinese relations and how …

Teamancer

– Call me Mr.. P. He was standing in a big office at the top of a building, one of many owned by a big software corporation, one that is not known by many but that I know is providing so-called “defensive” software for most …

Never say never

I know I said that studies should be taken with caution but I found an interesting one and I wanted to share its conclusions with you. This study shows that price tag can change the way people experience wine. If you want, you can read …

I will share a secret with you: I am doomed. I know in the end, we all are but in my case, I am doomed earlier than you. Why? Because a study said so. Now you are thinking that I am really out of my …

Rise and fall and …

After a first glimpse at Indonesian history, mostly on how tea came to it and how the Dutch implemented different agricultural policies (http://teaconomics.teatra.de/2014/06/24/an-unexpected-journey/), it is time to see if Indonesia was such a big tea producing tea country and what happened to it. As for …

‘Cause I’m TNT

First I should confess that I should have written down the good tips @lahikmajoe wrote to me (http://lahikmajoedrinkstea.blogspot.fr/2010/07/wiens-teehandlung-schonbichler.html) as I had no Internet connexion while I was in Vienna but after coming back, it seems I did rather well. …

An unexpected journey

Indonesia as one the biggest tea producer (in numbers) before World War II? When I read this in one of The Devotea’s posts, I was quite puzzled and I started to dig into this topic. According to Wikipedia and the FAO, Indonesia was in 2011, …

To the unsung heroes

Since our dear friend TheDevotea asked some of us to blog for Lady Devotea’s Birthday (something he called Lady Devotea’s Birthday Blog Bonanza whatever that might mean), I decided to postpone my usual blog posting and find a better topic that the one I had …