At present, the major market for Nepali CTC tea or black tea is India. Nepal exports around 90 percent of its orthodox tea and 50 percent of its CTC tea to India at low price tags.
The tea estate owners have not increased the daily wages in four years, citing losses incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, post-Covid.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL - Nepali tea producers are increasingly worried about a proposal in India's parliament that could make it much harder for them to se