date:Oct 15, 2012
nvestments and value addition and thus realise higher prices. According to the UPASI (United Planters Associations of South India), domestic tea production in 2011 was 988.3 million kg (higher than the previous year by 21.9 million kg).
South India is a major cultivation centre in the country for rubber, coffee and spices, and in the case of tea, about 20 per cent of the area under it is in the south. In 2012, South India is expected to report a decline in crop for the fourth consecutive year.