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| Tuesday, 30 September 2003 |
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Healthy tea production in August Tea output grew to a healthy 24.1 million kg. in August from 20.7M kg last year, a 17% increase. Mainly it was the growth in the High Grown elevation that contributed to this increase where a 47% improvement is recorded. The Mid Grown elevation too is a useful contributor with a 33% increase year on year. Low County production was a 4% improvement, and accounted for over 58% of the national crop. The steady improvement in harvests from all three elevations in the last two months has closed the gap between the cumulative difference in production between last year and the current year from January. High Grown and Mid Grown volumes have slightly surpassed last year's figures and now reflect 56.8M kg and 37.4M kg. Being the larger component in the tally, the deficit from the Low Country, which is 2.5% from last year, has stayed the national cumulative figure of 201.7M kg trailing slightly behind last year. ( John Keells Limited) |
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