India’s 2015 tea output drops 1.3%

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MUMBAI (Reuters): India’s tea production in 2015 fell 1.3% from a year earlier to 1,191 million kg, the State-run Tea Board said on Monday, as adverse weather and plantation workers’ strikes hit plucking.

Production in December dropped 5.8% to 55.95 million kg, the board said in a statement.

India, the world’s second biggest tea producer, exports CTC (crush-tear-curl) grade mainly to Egypt, Pakistan and the UK, and the orthodox variety to Iraq, Iran and Russia.