CTC or Black Tea Category
Many new tea businessmen often get confused about Primary Tea, Secondary Tea or RP tea. To make it easy to understand, we have decided to explain primary, Secondary Tea and RP tea.
When new green leaves are processed and graded, primary tea is formed. Primary tea is the best tea of every tea factory. Primary tea look Shinny black is also hard flavored in drinking having better appearance,sweetness in taste with aroma and perfect liquor. The Primary Tea cost and the price also remains high. If the green leaf is soft and small, then it is made up of more quantity of primary tea. But if there is a bigger rustic Green leaf then the sorting machine separates it from primary tea. The same tea is called Secondary Tea. Secondary Tea are black or brown in color. Do not be as bright as a Primary Tea. There is also a little fiber in it. Secondary Tea is light fresh taste with light colour. Some quantities of primary and secondary tea have more fiber or larger size. This tea has to be run again in the machine. In it, a new green leafs are added. Like it looks like fresh tea. This makes RP or Reprocessed tea strong. It is cut into CTC machines as new tea is being made. As it is made from junk and twice run in the machine, that is why its coveted bottom is the most systematised. All the tea from the Sorting machine is divided into different sizes or grading. Then, according to size, it is given its name.