{"id":1882,"date":"2015-01-27T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1882"},"modified":"2015-01-27T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T18:24:43","slug":"tea-in-turkey-impacted-by-increasing-extremes-in-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/01\/tea-in-turkey-impacted-by-increasing-extremes-in-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Tea in Turkey impacted by increasing extremes in weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Modern Farmer<\/em> had a fascinating article this week on the production of tea in Turkey.\u00a0 According to the article, the people of Turkey consume more tea per capita than any other country in the world.\u00a0 To provide all this tea, Turkey started growing tea along the eastern shore of the Black Sea, and it is now the 5th largest producer of tea worldwide.\u00a0 Because of its northern latitude, tea cannot be produced there year-round but is only harvested three times a year.\u00a0 These harvests have been disrupted in recent years by extreme weather, including a heavy frost last spring that delayed production by several weeks.\u00a0 Heavy rain in 2010 also destroyed some tea plantations due to landslides.\u00a0 In addition, there is increasing pressure on the land from developers and erosion caused by construction.\u00a0 You can read the article <a title=\"Tea in Turkey faces challenges\" href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2015\/01\/tea-turkey\/?utm_source=Modern+Farmer+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=fc6b09c183-Weekly_11_1511_15_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e8a89c7e43-fc6b09c183-75518621&amp;mc_cid=fc6b09c183&amp;mc_eid=cd66672ffe\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1884\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1884\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/tea-plantation-turkey-commons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1884\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/tea-plantation-turkey-commons-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Wikimol via Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/tea-plantation-turkey-commons-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/tea-plantation-turkey-commons-188x138.jpg 188w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/tea-plantation-turkey-commons.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1884\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Wikimol via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modern Farmer had a fascinating article this week on the production of tea in Turkey.\u00a0 According to the article, the people of Turkey consume more tea per capita than any other country in the world.\u00a0 To provide all this tea, Turkey started growing tea along the eastern shore of the Black Sea, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-crops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1882\/revisions\/1885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}