Saturday 12 May 2018

A Visit to a Madagascan Tea Plantation


Here are a few shots form a recent visit to a Madagascan tea plantation near a village called Sahavamby.

It's about 20kms off the RN7, is unpaved is probably one of the worst roads in Magagascar (see above).

The tea was quite good...

An old truck in the plantation car park. Not a good start...

One of the workers holding a range of teas for us to see

Machine that separates the larger tea leaves form the smaller ones using heat on the rollers

Another very old sorting machine....

We were visiting in the off season so not a lot was going on - other than a bit of maintenance

Lovely old electrical power board

As if it was not hot enough outside, this is the drying shed - 40 degrees

Two wazzahs (foreigners) inspecting the crop

What are the chances?
A bit of nostalgia. In the middle of Madagascar, in a tea plantation, a scale made by Avery of Birmingham, my home town...

Close up of the crop, to be picked starting in November
One of the drying sheds - the tea leaves are put on the racks and kept at a certain temperature and moisture using fans that blow air under the tables

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