The Assam tea industry which accounts for about
51 per cent of the India’s total tea production is suffering from soaring
temperatures and fickle rain with winter rainfall becoming scarce. According to
Tea Research Association based in Tocklai Experimental Station in Jorhat Assam
the minimum temperature has risen by 1.5 degree centigrade, and the annual
rainfall has reduced by 200 millimetres in last decade. The usual ambient
temperature used to be below 35 degrees Celsius but now the range has shot up
to 38 to 40 degrees Celcius in shaded areas, and upwards of 50 degrees C in
non-shaded spots.
September 9
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/09/201398144844505310.html
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