India’s tea exports increase 14.8% to 140.28 mkgs in Jan-Aug period of 2022: Tea Board

18 Nov 2022 Evaluate

The Tea Board in its latest data has showed that exports of tea from India increased by 14.8 per cent to 140.28 million kilograms (mkgs) in the first eight months of the 2022 calendar year. Tea shipments during the January-August period in 2021 stood at 122.18 mkgs.

As per the data, the CIS countries, including Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, remained the largest importer of Indian tea with 30.56 mkgs in the first eight months of 2022, marginally higher than 29.13 mkgs shipped out to these nations in the year-ago period. After the CIS countries, UAE was the second largest importer at 23.84 mkgs, a rise of 157 per cent from 9.27 mkgs in the similar period in 2021.

Owing to economic sanctions imposed by the US on Iran, tea shipments to the west Asian country also failed to increase in the first eight months of 2022. Exports to that country marginally increased to 16.40 mkgs in the January-August period as compared to 16.06 mkgs in the corresponding period last year.

In value terms, Indian tea exports stood at Rs 3,837.28 crore in the first eight months of the 2022 calendar year as against Rs 3,353.35 crore in the same period last year. Shipments to China, the largest tea-producing and drinking nation, marginally declined to 3.55 mkgs from January to August this year from 4.05 mkgs in the first eight months of 2021.

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