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File Photo: A tea garden worker wearing a jappi hat made out of bamboo and palm leaves plucks tea leaves inside Aideobarie Tea Estate in Jorhat in Assam, April 21, 2015. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s tea production in April fell 4% from a year earlier to 84.42 million kg due to lower plucking in the top producing north-eastern state of Assam, the state-run Tea Board said on Monday.
In the first four months of 2019, India produced 188.03 million kg of tea, up 4.3% from a year ago because of higher production in March, the board said in a statement.
India, the world’s second-biggest tea producer, exports CTC (crush-tear-curl) grade mainly to Egypt, Pakistan and the United Kingdom, with the orthodox variety exported to Iraq, Iran and Russia.
The country’s tea exports in January to April nudged up 0.4% to 81.59 million kg, it said.
Reporting by Rajendra Jadhav; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu
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