Therefore, Ernst said: "Tea is one of the world's three major beverages, and the three major beverages, in our East Africa, there are two dominant industries, because tea and coffee cultivation are geographically restricted, and the final alcohol products are relatively rich, all kinds of grains, melons and fruits, and even other plants, in short, the raw materials for winemaking are too rich, it can be said that each region has its own wine." ”

In fact, alcohol should also be considered an advantageous industry in East Africa, but this advantage is not too prominent, which is the result of comparison with coffee and tea.

The current advantage of coffee in East Africa is unshakable, because it is well known that the quality of East African coffee is well known all over the world.

This point of tea is not comparable, because the variety of tea is too rich, and the tea varieties introduced in East Africa are small types of varieties in the Far Eastern Empire, so they need to be specially cultivated, and the tea varieties introduced by East Africa from the Far Eastern Empire have reached hundreds of varieties.

This involves the tactics of East Africa in the tea industry, and an important reason why Indian tea has not been able to replace Far Eastern tea is that it is difficult to compare with Far Eastern tea in taste.

The solution to this dilemma in East Africa is to experiment with large quantities of planting, and then select the best of the best to grow on a large scale.

"The planting range of coffee is smaller than that of tea, basically in the tropical range, and tea can also be widely distributed in the subtropics, and even grow better, which is also an important reason why the Far Eastern Empire has become the first tea country in the tea industry, and an important reason why our northern tea region can fight its way out of the tea production area is the plateau terrain and tea yield advantages, the plateau ensures the quality of tea in East Africa, and the planting of tea gardens under the plateau terrain is also more convenient."

Of course, tea has relatively high requirements for terrain, generally speaking, high-altitude terrain such as mountains and hills is the most suitable, such as East Africa is a plateau area, while the Far Eastern Empire has a variety of complex and rich terrain, and India's tea area Assam is a large area of plains, but the quality is much worse than that of the Far Eastern Empire and East Africa.

This is not an exaggeration in East Africa, in the previous life, Kenya surpassed India and the Far East Empire in tea exports for more than ten years, and the important reason why Kenyan tea came to the top is naturally the excellent quality and huge output.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Kenyans are not used to drinking tea, and most of their tea is exported, so they have a long-term advantage in the international market.

In the previous life, the Far Eastern Empire and India had an extremely rich domestic tea market, and India cultivated a large number of tea lovers in the colonial era.

There is also milk tea in East Africa, mainly in the northern pastures and some areas with more developed animal husbandry, the demand for milk tea is very high, among which the northern pastures are close to the northern tea areas, and the milk production is high, under the combination of the two, the milk tea production rises, of course, the northern pastures are also an important consumption area of black tea in East Africa.

In the Northern Industrial Belt, there is an abundant supply of dairy products, including milk tea, and milk coffee are very popular, so the Northern Industrial Belt is also a combination of the world's three major beverage producing and consuming regions.

"In addition to the northern tea region and the southern tea region, the Great Lakes region is also an excellent tea and coffee producing area, but the current scale can not be compared with the northern tea region and the southern tea region, which must be paid attention to, especially in the Western Great Lakes Province (Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and other regions), and now the tea market is still profitable, so providing more varieties of choices will also help East African tea to open up the market."

The East African Plateau, the whole area is regarded as a high-quality tea production area, which is the unique advantage of East Africa, basically in the previous life East African countries are produced tea, even if it is not in the East African Plateau, and the East African Plateau produces tea, which means that other plateau areas in East Africa are also suitable for tea planting, after all, the overall environment is similar.

"Of course, the biggest disadvantage of our East African tea industry is still at the level of industrial production, especially mechanization, which is far inferior to India, so we must work the mechanized production of tea, in addition to developing and importing tea production machinery from Austria, we also have to build relevant machinery production enterprises."

As a semi-industrial country, East Africa is far inferior to European countries in the field of machinery manufacturing, and the field of mechanized production of tea is even more blank.

Because most of the industrial and technological sources in East Africa come from the German region, which does not produce tea, there is naturally no related mechanical production and technological accumulation.

The most advanced in this field is the United Kingdom, which has a history of growing tea in India more than ten years earlier than East Africa, and now there are hundreds of large-scale machinery factories in Indian tea factories.

The world's largest tea producer and third largest industrial producer, the Far Eastern Empire and East Africa still rely on traditional means to produce tea.

The situation in East Africa is slightly better, and in Austria a factory was commissioned to design a machine for the production of tea, but the effect is naturally difficult to describe.

After all, this is also an area that Austria has never touched, so the machines used in tea production plants in East Africa are very inefficient, and they cannot even replace labor, and the failure rate is high, and the maintenance cost is also large.

So Ernst continued: "Our tea production is still too weak, and we must make corresponding improvements to the unreliability of machine production, and the way of entrusting foreign design and production in previous years now seems to be unworkable, so we still have to hire a professional team from Europe to tailor the relevant machinery for East African tea production according to the traditional tea production process in East Africa." ”

In addition, the advantage of this is that various problems that occur after the operation of the machine can be solved at any time and improved accordingly.

The disadvantages of this are self-evident, that is, the cost is relatively high, but the East African tea industry can bring considerable benefits to East Africa every year, so the money spent on technology is acceptable to the East African government.

With regard to tea revenues, the East African government is much stronger than the Far Eastern Empire and India, and the Far Eastern Empire is relatively chaotic and even inactive in tea taxation.

Because tea was one of the most important exports of the Far Eastern Empire, before the Opium War, tea alone was an important export of the Far Eastern Empire to Britain, and the Far Eastern Empire was able to surpass Britain (the total value of exported goods in foreign trade exceeded the total value of imported goods).

Nowadays, the annual tea export volume of the Far Eastern Empire has reached about 100,000 tons, and the export volume is growing almost every year, but the tea tax of the Far Eastern Empire government is not long, and has been maintained at the level of hundreds of thousands of taels per year, which is too low, and its status as the first tea producing country is also a consumer country is far from matching.

As for India, it is a pure colony, and no matter how much tea is planted, it is the British who make a profit, and it does not contribute much to India itself.

Although the scale of the tea industry in East Africa is much smaller than that of the Far Eastern Empire and India, the value of the benefits it obtains belongs to East Africa, and both the government and tea workers can make profits, so the government attaches great importance to tea income.

Therefore, the government is quite willing to promote the scale of tea planting, expand the East African tea market, and improve the efficiency of tea production.

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