Coronavirus pandemic brings down India’s Tea Output

Tea is used in almost every Indian household. Some like hot tea, some like cold tea but many prefer green tea and black tea due to its amazing health benefits. Tea brands are continuously innovated to make drinks for millennium generations. Today, with various types of tea, people beat heat and chill in the winters. In the financial year 2018, Indian tea industry reported the highest output and exports ever. Total tea production amounted to 1325.05 million kgs – a rise in 2016-2017 of 74.56 million kgs. The rise is about 6 percent in percentage terms. However, after the coronavirus outbreak, due to the extended lockdown the Indian tea industry had suffered huge loss as well. In the 2020 calendar India is heading for a large deficit– the first year in many years that India's production falls in a year below the previous year since for many years India produced record output year after year. The 'Global Tea Digest' Compiler, Rajesh Gupta, confirmed that from Jan-Oct 2019 to October ...