December 15 – The origins of ‘International Tea Day’
New Delhi was the first place to actually properly celebrate this day in 2005.
Attention all tea fanatics!
It’s International Tea Day today. Even though it’s hardly recognised in our country, it’s still a great chance to celebrate with another cup or two of tea.
The day is celebrated in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, India and Tanzania as these are the main tea producing countries.
According to Wikipedia, the whole aim of the day was to draw global attention of governments and citizens to the impact of the global tea trade on workers and growers, and has been linked to requests for price supports and fair trade.
New Delhi was the first place to actually properly celebrate this day in 2005 with the other countries that followed the year later and so on.
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‘International Tea Day celebrations and the related Global Tea Conferences have been jointly organized by trade union movements.’
The Indian government then in 2015 expanded the observance of the day through the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation.
(Source:Wikipedia)
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