Prices in the country’s largest wholesale market, Khari Baoli market in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk that supplies to the entire country have moved up by 10% in the last three days and may rise further, wholesalers said.
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Tea Board has now released the export data up to January for the fiscal 2020-21 which shows a decline in terms of both the volume shipped and the value earned compared to 2019-20.
In the fiscal 2020-21 up to January, India’s export price rose to an average of ₹ 259.22 a kg from ₹ 228.02 for the same period in the previous fiscal.
However, this increase in price reduced the orders. Besides, the lockdown in many countries in the world’s fight against Covid-19 affected tea exports.
Indian tea exports dip 18% in 2020
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Indian tea exports dip 18% in 2020
Sovon Manna / TNN / Mar 5, 2021, 13:08 IST
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KOLKATA: India, the world’s second largest tea producer, saw tea exports fall by about 18% or 44 million kg (mkg) to 208mkg in 2020 compared to 252mkg in the previous year, according to industry sources. However, Kenya, the country’s toughest competitor in tea exports, saw its exports increase by 22mkg to 519mkg in 2020.
The global tea export market too shrunk by 76mkg to1,824mkg in the pandemic-hit year. According to the latest available data, in 2020, India lost 21mkg business in Iran, one of its top destinations, and 9mkg in Russia, while it gained marginally in Poland, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Kenya gained from India’s loss and captured 85% of the Pakistan market.
DNA Special: Ground report of the plight of tea plantation workers in Bengal, read here - After China, it is India that exports tea leaves the most to the world. 18% of the tea leaves grown in India are sent abroad.