“According to our compilation, the global cumulative production of black tea so far this calendar has increased 672.35mkg from 593.49 mkg in the same period of last year”, Rajesh Gupta, publisher ofannual Global Tea Digest, told Business Line.
The official tea production data for May has come out from major producing nations –India, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Malawi. The rising trend in crop in Kenya continued to help black tea production rise by 2.22 million kg (mkg) in May to 39.60 mkg.
Sri Lanka gained marginally 0.90 mkg at 33.60 mkg while Malawi also gained 0.90 mkg at 4.70 mkg.Bangladesh lost 0.30 mkg to dip to 5.20 mkg. India lost 2.24 mkg at 101.18 mkg.
“According to our compilation, the global cumulative production of black tea so far this calendar has increased 672.35mkg from 593.49 mkg in the same period of last year”, Rajesh Gupta, publisher of annual Global Tea Digest, toldBusiness Line. This increase of 78.86 mkg marks a growth of 13.29 per cent.
Cumulatively in the five months of current calendar, India tops the world black tea production at 255.55 mkg, 6.82 mkg more than last year.Kenya’s production of 195.09 mkg marks a whopping increase of 67.11 mkg. This increase itself is so large that it is higher than the cumulative production recorded so far this year in each producing country other than Sri Lanka and India.
Sri Lanka’s production at 147.08 mkg posts an increase of 11.09 mkg.Due to lower output in earlier months, Malawi’s cumulative production has fallen by 2.43 mkg to dip to 27.87 mkg while Bangladesh has lost 0.44 mkg to slide to 8.29 mkg
