Demand spikes for tea, popularly touted as immunity booster, amid Covid-19 crisis
Labourers pluck tea leafs after India eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus at Kiranchandra Tea Garden, some 20 kms from Siliguri on April 26, 2020.
Kashmiri men employed by government pack tea bags for distribution among needy people inside a temporary storage in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. India's output is likely to drop by 120 million kgs or 9 percent in 2020 as the lockdown initially forced plantations to suspend plucking during the opening harvest – the prized first flush – and then operate with about half the workforce, said Prabhat Bezboruah, chairman of India's Tea Board.
A worker carries tree leaves for his cattle inside a teagarden during the second day of an indefinite strike at Sukna village near the eastern Indian hill town of Darjeeling July 14, 2009. These problems have created a shortage of fresh supplies and lifted last season's crop prices to a rare premium, said Kalyan Sundaram, secretary of the Calcutta Tea Traders' Association.
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