Rize (tea)

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Tea plants on slopes in Rize

As Rize Tea refers to a variety of black tea , whose growing area in the northeast of Turkey on the Black Sea and in the Kaçkar Mountains is located. The tea got its name from the province of Rize , which is considered the main growing area. Around 65% of Turkish tea is grown in the Rize region. The tea production takes place in small to medium-sized, often family-run businesses and is the main source of income for the Lasen . The largest tea producer is the state-owned Çaykur .

The tea is brewed in the traditional way in so-called Çaydanlıklar and served in small tea glasses.

history

The first attempts to grow tea in Turkey were made in 1888 and 1892. For this, seeds of the tea plant were imported from Japan and grown in the province of Bursa . However, since the climate in the region did not allow the desired yield, tea cultivation was not continued there.

Originally, coffee from Yemen was drunk in Turkey or in the Ottoman Empire . When Yemen gained independence in 1918, coffee became an expensive import product, which sparked political interest in tea production.

From 1917 the botanist Ali Rıza Erten, at that time also deputy head of Halkalı Ziraat Mektebi Âlisi , a college for agriculture and arable farming in Halkalı , looked for a suitable region and identified the northeast of Turkey for tea cultivation. On February 16, 1924, the Turkish National Assembly decided to grow tea in Rize. For this purpose, the agricultural engineer Zihni Derin was sent to the region to start tea production. In the mid-1930s it was decided to produce all of Turkey's own tea needs. In order to achieve this, large quantities of young tea plants were imported from Georgia and cuttings were raised under the direction of Derin. The first tea factory was built in 1947, which accelerated tea production many times over. In Turkey today Derin is known as the "father of tea".

Individual evidence

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