Question about tea plantation

Dear all RFDT reader:

Day after tomorrow, I invite over a very experienced tea planter in my house for dinner. He has been worked for British Tea company- "Finley tea" almost twenty one years. Do you have any question about tea plantation? Just let me know, I will pass it to him for you.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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Ripon
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Thank you Ripon for this chance. Can I first ask you where Finley's plantation is?

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Livio Zanini

Livio:

Finley was a multinational British company, recently acquired by another multinational British company. But haven't change the name for Finley's long time reputation. Mr.Asfaqqudin Ahmed also left the day Finley was acuired. He retired and spending his time writing and consulting.

Finley's plantation is located in Sylhet,Bangladesh(border with Assam,India). Their garden is one of the oldest and largest in bangladesh.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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Ripon

My question would be, where can one purchse tea trees (bushes?) and if there is a particular cultivar we should be looking for?

Thanks!

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Charlie

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Sorry, very busy these days. Am I still in time to ask something about the plants used in the area where he worked: which cultivar are themt? where did they first get them from? do they also have their own nursery for sprouts? the start and end of the picking season? which kind of pest control? L

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Livio Zanini

Dear RFDT friends:

Today me and Mr. Ahmed talked a lot about tea plantation. He is a very nice man and never feels tired to talk about tea. I explained him about our tea mail group and RFDT group. Though he is a very busy traveling kind of person but he gave us a week to prepare our questions and kindly agreed to come over next weekend to my house for a small evening tea party. I have received question from Michael after he left. So we have a whole week(*) to prepare our question. And for your information- Bangladesh is almost 12 hours ahead of US time. (*) By the way weekend in Bangladesh is Friday not Saturday. That's means we have six days. Thanks.

Ripon (From Bangladesh)

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Ripon

Hi Ripon

I'd apreciate to know why tea is (as far as i know) planted just up the slope (like wine) and not on terraces. Is there an actual reason to do so, or is it just the way it is traditionally grown?

Or am I completely wrong and there also are plantations that use terraces for their plants? Then: On which basis does one decide whether to grow the tea on terraces rather than on the slope?

thanks Patrick

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Patrick Heinze

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