New Delhi: International Tea Day is celebrated all over the world to draw light on the amount of impact the tea trade has brought to the workers and the farmers. Seeing the progress Asian countries were making in the World Tea Industry, the United Nations General Assembly declared May 21st as the International Tea Day.
In the year 2019, the UN General Assembly decided to celebrate International Tea Day on May 21st annually. The assembly stated that the day will promote and nurture collective initiatives to carry out activities in support of sustainable tea production and consumption, as well as raise awareness of tea’s relevance in the battle against hunger and poverty.
The goal of International Tea Day is to increase awareness of tea’s long history and cultural and economic importance around the world. The day’s purpose is to promote and nurture collective actions to execute initiatives in support of sustainable tea production and consumption, as well as to increase awareness of tea’s relevance in the battle against hunger and poverty.
Since 2005, tea-producing countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Uganda, and Tanzania have commemorated December 15 as International Tea Day. International Tea Day strives to bring governments and citizens throughout the world’s attention to the impact of the global tea trade on workers and growers, and has been related to calls for price supports and fair trade.
