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Tea companies in the Nilgiris have informed the Tea Board that their production in August remained at 9.1-lakh kg – this is the same level as that of last year and the five-year mean for the month due to ample rains.
ProductionThe cumulative production of tea companies in the eight months of this year has risen to 10.30-million kg (mkg) from last year’s 7.80 mkg, marking a growth of 32 per cent.
This was also more than the five-year mean of 9.30 mkg for the period by 11 per cent.
“We have been receiving consistently good rains all through September as well. This has helped greenery to return even in areas where there were brown patches. There has also been periodical sunshine helping the growth of the tea bushes, although we are awaiting more sunshine hours to kindle photosynthesis and metabolism activities,” ENR Vejayashekara, the Speciality Tea Production Executive with Avataa Beverages told BusinessLine .
“The rains have increased moisture in soil and succulence in tea leaves. This has helped the manufacture of our multiple-brewing speciality teas, ahead of winter speciality teas. Based on this, we have come out with choice grades of teas for gift packs, which contain a variety of top-quality teas in consumer sachets,” said Avataa Director, G Udayakumar.
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