Editorial

  • N. K. Jain International Journal of Tea Science

Abstract

This SECOND issue of the International Journal of Tea Science has been inordinately delayed as your Resident Editor suffered medical incapacitation for almost four months. This adversity was compounded by several changes in the administrative set up of the collaborating organization. However, these events have exposed the need of institutionalizing the Project so that during such unforeseen circumstances, support can be forthcoming from other commodity specialists. One individual, howsoever resourceful, suffers severe limitations in sustaining a publication on a long term basis.
The FEED-BACK from the readers of the first issue both in industry and amongst scientists, was very encouraging. Quality and content of the Journal were found to be comparable to the international standards. Several queries have been received on the topical subject of industrial uses of tea extract. Sulphur review has focused on the need to apply sulphur in many situations where it was not known to be deficient. Even the information on the oldest nutrient nitrogen brought home the variations in N-fertilization in different tea growing regions.
The RATIONALE of this second issue is the continuation of the laid down policies of the inaugural issue. The movement towards achieving the over-riding objective of bringing modern information technology to this ancient agro-industry has begun well. Tea extract is a case in point. This highly value-added product of new technology promises great potential both in the short term as well as in the long term. Over a short period of time, the manufacture of this new line of product could enhance revenues in the current situation of globally depressed tea market. Moreover, this new technology moves the goal posts of a single-use commodity market as a beverage. In the long run, it opens new vistas to the consumption of very large volumes of leaf tea as raw material for the manufacture of multi-use tea extract, as well as the other value added products for industrial and pharmaceutical purposes. If widely adopted by the tea industry, this (product) information would have the potential of stabilizing tea prices and could open up a new market economy. Perhaps in the same futuristic category would fall the conceptual paper on Total Quality Management, appearing in this issue.
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Jain, N. “Editorial”. International Journal of Tea Science, Vol. 1, no. 02 and 03, Sept. 2002, pp. 1-2, doi:10.20425/ijts.v1i2and3.4595.