Tea export to Australia to double in next five years: Tea Board

20 Sep 2016 Evaluate

Indian tea exporters are fully geared to cater to the international market. The Tea Board is hopeful of doubling the export volumes to Australia in the next five years. The export to Australia currently stands at 3 million kg. Australia is looking only for specialty products such as organic tea, value-added teas, flavored teas and green tea.

The exports of tea had risen by 10% in 2015 -16 to touch 221 million kg as compared to the earlier year. As per Tea Board figures, the CIS continues to be the largest importer of Indian teas at 60.52 million kg in 2015-16. Other major importers of Indian teas are Iran (20.41 million kg), Pakistan (18.94 m kg), the UK (17.70 m kg) and the UAE (15.01 m kg).

Indian tea production rose in 2015-16 by 36 million kg to 1,233 million kg compared to the corresponding 12 months of the previous year. While north Indian production increased by 52 million kg to 1,008 million kg, tea production in the South took a huge hit slipping by 16 million kg to 225 million kg.



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