(UTV | INDIA) -India benefiting due to the absence of tea supplies from Sri LankaSyria and some Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq and Turkey are reportedly turning to the Indian market to purchase tea in the absence of supplies from SriLanka
The Economic Times of India reported that Syria has already started buying tea from India after a gap of 50 years, and because of US and European Union sanctions on the Western Asian country, the consignments are routed through Lebanon.
Countries such as Iraq and Turkey are also buying good quantities of orthodox teas from India in the absence of supplies from Sri Lanka in the market. Orthodox tea refers to loose-leaf tea, produced using traditional or orthodox methods such as plucking, withering, rolling, oxidation and drying.
The other main variety, CTC tea, is processed using the crush, tear and curl method and accounts for a larger portion of India’s tea exports. Sri Lanka accounts for about half the global trade in orthodox tea.
Sri Lanka’s absence in the market due to political turmoil in the country has helped India enter orthodox tea consuming nations.
