The business of tea, read the way a market is read. Auction prices, harvests, trade, and the figures behind them, reported plainly and sourced to the record. We cover the trade, not the cup.
Kenya's National Assembly Speaker ordered a fresh debate on the Tea Amendment Bill after finding an MP took part without declaring he directs three tea-sector companies.
Read the Full Account →A peer-reviewed synthesis of decades of research puts real numbers on climate change's effect on tea yield and quality, and on the growing area itself. Here is what the figures say, region by region.
Read it →Tea's auction price has gone nowhere for 20 years and now sits below what was paid a century ago, in real terms. Here is what the figures say is actually happening, and who is absorbing the squeeze.
A peer-reviewed synthesis of decades of research puts real numbers on climate change's effect on tea yield and quality, and on the growing area itself. Here is what the figures say, region by region.