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Climate change a threat to Assam teaNew Delhi (UPI) Jan 3, 2011 India's popular Assam tea may be threatened by global warming, experts say. Begun by the British in the early 19th century, there are 850 tea plantations spread over 593,000 acres in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, accounting for most of the country's harvest of leaves used to brew traditional breakfast teas. But tea production in Assam declined from 564,000 tons in 2007 to 487,000 tons in 2009, says the Assam Branch Indian Tea Association, an umbrella group of some 400 plantatio ... read more |
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