India’s plantation sector faces similar problems across crops such as climate change, rising costs, lack of finances, low R&D investment and cheap competition
Global black tea output down a tad due to Kenya
April 16, 2021
Kenya’s output has fallen to 92.28 mkg from 102.84 mkg Despite significant increase in the production of black tea in India, Sri Lanka, Malawi and Bangladesh, the overall global black tea output so far this calendar has marginally fallen below the corresponding months of 2020 because of Kenya pulling down the output.
“Our compilation of the official data from various producing countries shows that the global production of black tea so far this calendar has marginally fallen to 193.75 million kg (mkg) from 194.13 mkg in the same months of 2020, marking a loss of 0.20 per cent”, Rajesh Gupta, compiler of the annual
Tea output down a tad on adverse weather
March 04, 2021
The falling trend witnessed in India’s tea production in 2020 continues in 2021.
There had been a marginal decrease in the country’s tea production in January. “Tea Board has just released the data as per which, India’s production dropped to 16.05 million kg (mkg) from 16.06 mkg in January 2020,” compiler of ‘Global tea Digest’ Rajesh Gupta told
BusinessLine.
North Indian factories were closed for winter and hence there was no production there in January.
“In the South, Tamil Nadu suffered a production loss of 0.28 mkg as the output dropped to 10.43 mkg (10.71 mkg),” Gupta said. Adverse weather in The Nilgiris and Anamalais pulled down the output. “Kerala managed to produce 5.24 mkg (4.89 mkg), marking an increase of 7.16 per cent.”