Ninety Tea Farms Become Rainforest Alliance Certified

One of the largest remaining fragments of South America's Atlantic Forest is home to endangered species such as the golden lion tamarin monkey and the Brazilian rosewood tree, but it is also home to thousands of acres of tea farms. Although we often associate the production of tea with China and other Asian countries, the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is grown commercially in many places around the world, usually where rainfall is heavy and accompanied by warm days and cool nights -- such as in the highlands of northeastern Argentina. Even though tea farming didn't begin there in earnest until the 1950s, Argentina currently exports around 110 million pounds (50 million kilograms) of tea per year, mostly to the