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D-green-leaf Dictionary

Green leaf

Freshly plucked tea leaf delivered to a factory

All termsIntroduced in M18Open the Toolkit
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Plain meaning
Freshly plucked tea leaf delivered to a factory
How to use it
Deliver green leaf to the factory within hours of plucking.
South African benchmark
South African black tea output is roughly 4 to 7 million kilograms a year (Article 119).
Country notes
Applies the same way in all five markets.
Go and read
M18-U4
Calculate it
T-M18-03 Contract Grower Income
Library sources
LIB-A120, LIB-P-Rooibos, LIB-P-Honeybush
See also
Made tea
Tea and Coffee: the product, the five stages of the business, the unit it is sold by and where it is producedTea and Coffee: how the business runsSold bykg of green leaf or green coffee1Plant2Grow bushes3Pluck green leaf4Factory5Made tea or green coffeeZAZWZMBWNAProduces commerciallyImports most needsZA South Africa, ZW Zimbabwe, ZM Zambia, BW Botswana, NA Namibia
From the Tea and Coffee Major, where this term is introduced.

Introduced in M18 Tea and Coffee.