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With major tea producing countries including India, Kenya, Bangladesh and Uganda reporting a lower output so far this calendar compared to the same period of 2016, the world tea market seems to be heading for a shortage of the Crush-Tear-Curl (CTC) variety of black teas.
“According to our compilation of the latest data gathered from various producing countries, the global black tea production so far this calendar has fallen to 1545.05 million kg (mkg) from 1594.17 mkg in the corresponding period of 2016,” Rajesh Gupta, compiler of annual ‘Global Tea Digest’, told BusinessLine. This fall of 49.12 mkg marked a decline of 3.08 per cent. India continued to top the global black tea production table at 912.55 mkg but this was 10.72 mkg less than 2016 as adverse weather affected the crop in North East India. Kenya lost the highest volume of 43.11 mkg to bad weather to produce 303.55 mkg. Uganda lost 8.24 mkg to produce 23.75 mkg. Bangladesh lost 3.61 mkg to produce 39.50 mkg.
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