Tea Exporters

Warren Tea to exit plantations, plans expansion of IT and hotel businesses

Signs deal with Dhunseri group for the last four estates it currently owns

Tea Board may modify past order on blending, change to help tea firms, TCPL

Existing notification bars blending imported tea with GI-tagged Indian varieties; Sources said commerce ministry left it to the Board to take a reasoned call on modification

Sri Lanka's economic crisis powers 22% spike in Indian orthodox tea exports

Sri Lanka accounts for half the global trade in orthodox teas. Sources say exports from India could pick up further in second and third quarters, will help meet target of 240 mkg by year-end

Nepal brews a fresh crisis for Darjeeling tea with cheaper leaves

A notification banning blends of imported tea in GI-tagged teas has almost pushed Tata Consumer Products, the biggest buyer, out of the market

Promote lassi, sattu to curb tea import costs in Pakistan: Education board

A top educational body in Pakistan has proposed a novel idea to boost employment and reduce the expenditure on tea imports: promote the consumption of local drinks such as lassi and sattu.

Indian orthodox tea gets a boost as crisis impacts Sri Lankan trade

India - which has just stepped into the quality period for orthodox - is reaping the benefits of the anticipated shortfall

Iran, Taiwan reject Indian tea shipments citing phytosanitary issues

Taiwan and Iran have rejected three containers of tea sent from India due to phytosanitary issues and presence of pesticides beyond permissible limits

Indian tea companies smell opportunity as Sri Lanka crisis brews

Island nation largest orthodox tea supplier, exporting over 95% of its production, according to ICRA report

India's tea industry is on tenterhooks as Russia wages war on Ukraine

Russia accounts for 18 per cent of the industry's exports and the consequences of the conflict are making themselves felt already

Champagne of teas loses fizz amid scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown

Scanty rainfall, last year's lockdown, growing competition from Nepal and the disaster of the 2017 Gorkhaland agitation are steadily weakening exports and sales of Darjeeling tea

Tea companies increasingly opting for loan moratorium to improve cash flows

Usually, during May-July, tea companies need a higher cash flow to ready the bushes for the second flush. This harvest is the most important in Assam and the second-most important in West Bengal

Rising costs, political unrest, Covid-19: Triple whammy for tea industry

The tea industry, hit by rising costs, falling prices and political unrest in the North Bengal plantations, is especially vulnerable to the Covid-19 lockdown

Indian tea exports may decline by up to 8% over Covid-19 outbreak

Exports under pressure as major buyers battle Covid-19

Coronavirus outbreak to throw Indian tea exports out of gear this year

Tea Board of India has called an urgent exporters' meet this week to discuss means of staving off expected fall in exports due to coronavirus outbreak

India's tea exports up 2% by value on whole-leaf shipments to Iran

Exports of whole-leaf tea to Iran increased by around 74 per cent at 53.45 mkg while in Germany, it stagnated at 10 mkg

US airstrike on Iran may impact business of Indian tea planters, exporters

What happens if the US refuses to exempt Chabahar port from sanctions, said an exporter

India's tea exporters may be left high and dry on Iran; here's why

Iran is India's largest importer of tea in value terms while in terms of volume, it is the second largest after Russia