Despite Kenya continuing to post increase in its output of black tea, the overall global production till October this year , the period for which official data is available, is trailing behind last year essentially because of a sharp fall in India’s production.
“According to our compilation of the official data received from various countries, the global black tea production in the first ten months has fallen to 1,831.10 million kg (mkg) from 1,920.60 mkg in Jan-Oct 2019,” Rajesh Gupta, compiler of annual Global Tea Digest, told BusinessLine.
This fall of 89.50 mkg marked a loss of 4.66 per cent.
Lockdown due to the world’s fight against Covid-19 and adverse weather in many countries pulled down the output.
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The bulk of the fall has happened in India, where due to prolonged lockdown and adverse weather, the country’s output till October had crashed to 1,032.68 mkg from 1,184.28 mkg in Jan-Oct 2019.
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