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Bumper tea production in Assam recovers losses caused by weather.


Byline: ANI

Guwahati, Nov 8(ANI): The tea industry in Assam has not only witnessed a good produce between September and October, but also managed to overcome the shortfall it had recorded early this year owing to owing to
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 bad weather.

Dipanjal Deka, Secretary of the Tea Association of India based in Guwahati, said that Assam has managed to make up for the loss in production, which it had suffered in the beginning of the year.

"We have already made up our losses. In fact, the all India All India is a phrase used to refer the all the states/regions of India together, esp. during the pre-independence days of India. During the period "All India" essentially included what is now as separate nations such as Pakistan, Bangladesh.  figures are about 10 million behind. It is mainly because of south India South India is a commonly used term that is used in India to refer to the South-of-India or Southern India. The Southern part of the Indian peninsula is a linguistic-cultural region of India that comprises the four states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and the , but in north India Introduction
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 particularly Assam, we are quite ahead," Deka said.

As per Deka, during the initial months of this year, especially during the April-May period, Assam tea tea grown in Assam, in India, originally brought there from China about the year 1850.

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 industry had posted a shortfall of around nine to fifteen million kilogram of tea, lagging by 15 percent.

This loss has now been fully recovered, owing to the unprecedented crop production in the last month.

"The best part is that the tea prices are also quite good. The national average is more than Rs. 100, around 100 to 110. Last year it was in 90s around 93 or so. The national average has come out good and the tea prices are also good," Deka added.

Assam produces half of the country's tea production, which is about 450 million kilogram per year. (ANI)

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