recent decades, the great majority for export to Europe and North America respectively, produced on large estates, often owned by tea companies from the export markets. Almost all production is of basic mass-market teas, processed by the crush, tear, curl method. See also Tea classics Tea culture Notes References External links Tea, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Huw Bowen, James Walvin & Amanda Vickery (In Our Time, Apr. 29, 2004) History of Tea and Influence on World: