India: Climate-smart tea seed variety introduced to counter high-temperature impacts

게시됨 2024년 9월 22일

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The Tea Research Association (TRA) of India has developed a climate-smart seed variety, 'TSS 2', to combat the effects of extreme heat and climatic factors on tea production. The new seed stock is designed to withstand high temperatures and produce high-quality crops. This comes at a time when tea production is down by 80 million kgs in 2024 due to climate change. The association has also introduced microbial formulations, approved by the Central Insecticides Board, to reduce the dependence on pesticides.

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Kolkata, Sep 22 (PTI) A body of the tea industry has come out with a climate-smart seed variety which can withstand high temperatures and yield quality crops, an official said on Sunday. The new seed stock ‘TSS 2’, introduced by the Tea Research Association (TRA), will help the industry prepare itself to counter the negative effects of climate change, he said. The new seed variety has been introduced at a time “when tea production is down by 80 million kgs till now in 2024 due to extreme heat and climatic factors,” TRA secretary Joydeep Phukan told PTI. Extreme heat is making a significant impact on tea plantations in Assam and north Bengal, the two largest tea-producing regions in the country. “To combat the effects of climate change, TRA released the first climate-smart tea seed stock TSS 2. The new seed variety can withstand high temperatures and the new seed stock can produce high-quality tea,” he said. The traditional tea-growing calendar is being disrupted due to erratic ...

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