Abstract
Tea is the most popular, inexpensive beverage throughout the world because of its characteristic aroma and flavour produced from the shoots of the commercially cultivated tea plants [Camellia sinen...
Highlights
The original home or “the primary centre of origin” of tea was Southeast Asia, i.e. at the point of intersection between the 29o N and 98o E near the source of the Irrawaddy river at the confluence of Northeast India, North Burma, Southwest China and Tibet provinces
Literature reviews that focus on integrated nutrient management (INM) in tea plants are barely available, and the objective of this paper is to review INM of tea plants (Heydorn, 1988)
The appropriate combination of mineral fertilizers, organic manures, crop residues and compost of N-fixing crops varies according to the system of land use and ecological, social and economic conditions; decreases in subsidy on fertilizers by the government have become the cause of concern to the government, fertilizer industry and farmers
Summary
The original home or “the primary centre of origin” of tea was Southeast Asia, i.e. at the point of intersection between the 29o N (latitude) and 98o E (longitude) near the source of the Irrawaddy river at the confluence of Northeast India, North Burma, Southwest China and Tibet provinces. The British, who are known as a great nation of tea drinkers, were the last of the seafaring nations to be introduced to tea drinking. Tea was introduced to East Africa in the beginning of the twentieth century, which led to commercial production in the 1920s and 1930s in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. Biofertilizers improve soil fertility and promote plant growth, and they are broadly classified into nitrogen fixers, phosphate solubilizers and phosphate mobilizers, and organic matter decomposers. They enhance certain biological processes by which nutritionally important elements are made available to the plants (Lian, 2002). Literature reviews that focus on INM in tea plants are barely available, and the objective of this paper is to review INM of tea plants (Heydorn, 1988)
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