Tea production inside the Nilgiris, the largest tea growing district inside the South, became down 14.Forty eight consistent with cent in 2019 over the 2018 calendar yr.

Tea generating companies inside the district have knowledgeable the Tea Board that their output in December dropped to zero.96 million kg (mkg) from 1.01 mkg in December 2018 due to low temperature and foggy conditions on many days in the month. Plantations in Coonoor and Kotagiri suffered extra from such unfavourable weather and hence harvested a decrease crop. Estates in Udhagamandalam and Kundah zones controlled to reap a truthful crop.

The output was also less than ordinary stage for the month via 7.87 consistent with cent as measured by using five-12 months mean which turned into 0.89 mkg.

With damaging weather triumphing in many months in 2019, the overall output in the district dropped to thirteen.58 mkg from 15.88 mkg in 2018. This fall of two.Three mkg marked a lack of 14.Forty eight consistent with cent.

The output become much less than the ordinary of 14.Seventy three mkg as measured via the 5-yr mean by using 7.81 in keeping with cent.