Mobility paves Samsung’s silver path
The Korean giant’s early bet on mobile phones helped it hit the $10-bn mark in India, but in its 25th year it ...
Encouraged by higher output of 4.84 per cent in the first half, indications are that India’s tea production in the current calendar is heading for a new record.
“The Tea Board has now released the data for June, which shows that the country’s production rose to 150.86 million kg (mkg) from 149.13 mkg in June 2018, marking a gain of 1.16 per cent,” Rajesh Gupta, compiler of the annual Global Tea Digest told BusinessLine.
Production would have been higher but for a marginal fall of 0.09 per cent in North India, where the output dropped to 125.86 mkg from 125.97 mkg in June 2018.
Adverse weather in Assam brought down the production.
South India’s output, on the other hand, rose by 7.94 per cent to 25 mkg from 23.16 mkg in June 2018.
“Collectively, in the first half of the current calendar, India’s tea production rose to 473.68 mkg from 451.83 mg in January-June 2018,” Gupta said.
“This increase of 21.85 mkg marked a gain of 4.84 per cent,” he noted.
North India’s production has risen to 373.16 mkg from 341.67 mkg, marking a gain of 31.49 mkg or 9.22 per cent.
Assam continued to top the country’s production table with 220.04 mkg (January-June 2018: 207.37 mkg) followed by West Bengal at 142.55 mkg (125.98 mkg).
On the contrary, South India’s output dropped to 100.52 mkg from 110.16 mkg in the first half of 2018, marking a loss of 9.64 mkg or 8.75 per cent, Gupta said.
Here, Tamil Nadu lost 6.07 mkg or 7.91 per cent due to adverse weather in most months of the current calendar and produced 70.63 mkg from 76.70 mkg in January-June 2018. Kerala suffered a loss of 2.96 mkg or 9.61 per cent to produce 27.83 mkg from 30.79 mkg.
At the current level, producers expect the country’s output to reach a new record of 1,335 mkg when the year ends. The record so far is 1,322 mkg in 2017. Last year, production dropped to 1312 mkg.
The Korean giant’s early bet on mobile phones helped it hit the $10-bn mark in India, but in its 25th year it ...
Antrix should adopt a different tactic than merely fighting over jurisdiction: Experts
Invest in relationships, enterprise, behaviour, effort and learning
From different types of osmoses to new membranes, researchers have come up with ways of drawing water
What filters should you apply when mining for under-the-radar small-cap stocks? Read on to find more
Only half the Sensex stocks have bettered the index’s return in the last 10,000-point journey
High valuation and stiff competition from larger players are a dampener
Investors with a short-term perspective can buy The New India Assurance Company (NIACL) stock at current ...
What makes the new crop of young Indian cricketers such game-changing winners? Over and above their talent, ...
For their dead, Parsis practise a 3,000-year-old system where corpses are excarnated in the Tower of Silence, ...
The morning she gave Peter and Neha, and their baby daughter Minty, a tour of Ambassador Apartments, Mrs ...
It’s the 111th birth anniversary of jazz musician and guitar genius Jean ‘Django’ Reinhardt. This week’s quiz ...
Digital is becoming dominant media, but are companies and their ad agencies transforming fast enough to make a ...
Slow Network, promoted by journalist-lyricist Neelesh Misra, pushes rural products and experiences
How marketers can use the traditional exchange of festive wishes meaningfully
For Fortune, a brand celebrating its 20th anniversary, it was a rude shock to become the butt of social media ...
Three years after its inception, compliance with GST procedures remains a headache for exporters, job workers ...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of companies are altering the prospects for wooden toys of ...
Aequs Aerospace to create space for large-scale manufacture of toys at Koppal
And it has every reason to smile. Covid-19 has triggered a consumer shift towards branded products as ...
Please Email the Editor