Something about Tea

I visited Munnar, a high range region in Kerala, India. An excellent scenic beauty that makes kerala worth its name 'Gods own country'. Even though many crops were experimentally planted in this region in 1880's, they were not successful until Tea. Planting of Tea was very successful and now major portion of area is used for tea plantation.
Kannan Devan Hills Plantation Company (KDHPC) and Tata Tea Plantations holds major portion here.

Places To Visit

Madupetty dam, Echo point, Eravikulam National Park, Tata Tea Museum and some waterfalls. Of these  Eravikulam National Park and Tata Tea Museum have Rs.65/- and Rs.75/- entrance fee respectively.
Authorities will take you in mini bus for trekking to some distance and after you have some distance to walk. If you are lucky you can see Nilgiri Tahr there. You can see variety of flora with its scientific and native names there.
In Tea Museum, you can see old Pelton wheel used for power generation to company, old telegrams etc...Factory over there is a small one, what I mean is that there isn't need of large factory to process tea.You will have a tasty cup of Tea free from there.

From the class

There are three types of tea, white tea, green tea and black tea.

1.White Tea

This tea have the most medicinal value than other two tea and is produced from the tender most bud of plant.

 

From the figure, first leaf (marked as 1) is used to make white tea.Thus naturally a large number of plants are needed to making white tea and its cost is above Rs.6000 per Kg.