Adverse weather conditions hurting tea farmers

This susceptibility to changing weather patterns will have adverse effects on the socio-economic status of players in the entire tea production value chain.PHOTO:COURTESY

The unpredictability that is synonymous with the weather has gone a notch higher; aggravated by changing patterns occasioned by climate change.

Thanks to science and research, there is indisputable evidence supporting existence of a global alteration in weather patterns that, unfortunately, has come at a high price for the agricultural fraternity, and the local tea sector has not been left unscathed.