Tea output in 2020 crashes by 10{d5f2c26e8a2617525656064194f8a7abd2a56a02c0e102ae4b29477986671105} due to lockdown

The extended lockdown induced by Covid-19 coupled with adverse climate, specially in the North East, has pulled down the country’s tea creation in 2020.

“Tea Board has now unveiled the info for December and our compilation shows that in 2020, India’s tea creation nosedived to one,255.60 million kg (mkg) from one,390.08 mkg in 2019,” compiler of ‘Global Tea Digest’ Rajesh Gupta told BusinessLine.

This marked a whopping shortfall of 134.forty eight mkg or 9.sixty seven for every cent. This occurred irrespective of an maximize in output in the South.

“North Indian creation crashed to one,034.06 mkg from one,171.09 mkg, marking a enormous drop of 137.03 mkg or 11.70 for every cent,” Gupta explained.

Assam continued to top rated the creation table but immediately after shedding 98.14 mkg to dip to 618.35 mkg.

“South India, on the other hand, developed two.fifty five mkg (one.sixteen for every cent) additional to get to 221.54 mkg from 218.99 mkg in 2019,” Gupta explained.

However, this maximize was much inadequate to offset the reduction in North.

In the South also, Tamil Nadu missing one.82 mkg to dip to 153.49 mkg from 155.31 mkg.

In effect, Kerala and Karnataka had been the only states which posted an maximize in output.

Common rate for inexperienced leaf

Meanwhile, the Tea Board has declared that the district ordinary rate for inexperienced leaf of the small growers in The Nilgiris district for the duration of February is ₹21.sixty five a kg.

Tea Board’s Government Director M Balaji explained this was fastened based on the consolidated auction rate of CTC teas from purchased leaf factories in January.

The rate fastened for January was ₹17.94 and so, this month’s rate is ₹3.seventy one or 20.68 for every cent additional than last month.

As factories generally acquire four kgs of inexperienced leaf to manufacture one kg of produced tea, the growers will get around ₹15 additional for just about every kg manufactured in February compared to last month.

However, the rate is substantially additional compared to February last 12 months when the rate was ₹13.ten. This maximize of ₹8.fifty five marked a attain of as significantly as sixty five.27 for every cent.

As a result, compared to February last 12 months, growers will now get about ₹32 additional for just about every kg of manufactured tea this month.