India Tea Exports

Tea Exports from India:

• India roughly accounts to the 13% of Total World Trade in Tea.
  
• India’s tea export is around 20% of production.
  
• In 2008-09, India’s estimated export was 203120 Metric tones which roughly accounts for ` 2393 Crore.
  
• From April 2008 to March 2009 India exported 190640 metric tons of tea at Unit price of Rs. 124.94 per kilogram accounting for an foreign exchange earning of US$ 518.01 Million.
  

The Share of countries in India’s Tea Exports is as follows:

The above table makes it clear that

• Largest quantity of Indian Tea goes to Russia, followed by UAE and UK.
  

India’s Position in World Tea Exports:

• India is world’s 4^th largest exporter of world.
  
• The largest exporter of Tea in the world is Kenya, followed by Sri Lanka and China.
  
• World’s largest tea exporters are shown below: