International Tea Day 2023: History, Significance, Interesting Facts and Quotes to Share

INTERNATIONAL TEA DAY 2023: For all tea lovers, it is time to brace up as the day to celebrate our favourite beverage has arrived. It’s International Tea Day. The day is marked to spread awareness about the importance of the beverage. The United Nations General Assembly decided to celebrate the day on May 21 every year. As per the official website, International Tea Day “will promote and foster collective actions to implement activities in favour of the sustainable production and consumption of tea and raise awareness of its importance in fighting hunger and poverty.”

International Tea Day 2023: Significance

The purpose of the day is to encourage sustainable tea production, trade, and consumption. It offers a platform for leaders at global, regional, and national levels to prioritise the tea industry’s contribution to alleviating extreme poverty, fighting hunger, and safeguarding natural resources and livelihoods.

International Tea Day 2023: Interesting Facts:

1. Tea is the second most consumed beverage globally, following water.
2. Over the past decade, tea per capita income has increased by 2.2% annually.
3. In 2020, worldwide tea production reached 6.5 million tonnes.
4. The FAO Intergovernmental Group on tea spearheads collaborative initiatives to bolster the global tea economy.
5. Approximately 9 million tea farmers in major producing countries like China, India, Kenya, and Sri Lanka are smallholders.

International Tea Day 2023: Quotes

1. There is hope when there is tea. – Arthur Wing Pinero
2. Some individuals will claim that a cup of tea has a lot of poetry and lovely feeling. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. Like tea, we don’t really understand our own strength until we are submerged in hot water. –Sister Busche
4. You can get there with tea. – Ags Sachs
5. For the English, tea is just an indoor picnic. – Alice Walker
6. Tea will always be the preferred beverage of the cerebral, despite being mocked by people who are inherently course in their anxious sensitivities. – Thomas de Quincey