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World Service,4 mins

British tea drinkers enjoy beverage from leaves grown in England.

World Business Report

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Think of a country where tea is grown and you will probably conjure up images of China or plantations in East Africa, but you will probably never think of England. The British are known as tea drinkers, but thanks to warmer weather, which is blamed on climate change, a tea growing industry has got stronger in the south west of England. 91福利社 Business Reporter Joshua Thorpe visits the UK's oldest commercial tea plantation, in Cornwall, to find out if the industry will ever rival the crop grown by farmers in Kenya, or Sri Lanka. (Picture: English afternoon tea at a London hotel. Copyright: AFP.)

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