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2021

Episodes 1-49

2022

Episodes 50-96

2023

Episodes 97-136

Episode 136

| Retail Sales Projections are Ho-Hum for the Holidays: Sales growth adjusted for inflation will be in the single digits, the lowest growth rate since 2018
| India Abandons Bharat Tea Auction Experiment and Returns to English Auction Rules
| UC Davis Global Tea Institute Launches a Training Program for Tea Professionals

PLUS | More than 30,000 tea workers and supporters, mainly from the indigenous Bataga Community living in Ooty, Kothagiri, and Coonoor in the Nilgiris mountains of South India, participated in a silent hunger protest on behalf of farmers. The demonstrations ended last week, but only after the High Court took cognizance of the petitions that urgently plead the case for fixing a minimum price for green leaf. Aravinda Anantharaman reports.

Tea News for the week ending Sept 29

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Episode 135

New Report Examines the Causes of Gender-based Abuse in Tea

| A 70-page case study of James Finlay Kenya explains the lapses that led to BBC’s Sex for Work: The True Cost of Our Tea exposé
| Tea Price Protests in South India Continue for the Third Week
| High Temps Lower Yields of Türkiye’s Black Sea Tea

PLUS | This week, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s World Heritage Committee, meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, inscribed a World Heritage site, the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of Jingmai Mountain in China’s Yunnan Province.

Tea News for the week ending Sept 22

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Episode 131

Tea Board Weighs Auditor Concerns: Additional Resources Needed to Market Tea

| Overindulgence and High ABV Tea
| Tea Stalwart: India’s Oldest Captive Elephant Dies

Tea News for the week ending Aug 25

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Episode 129

More than a third of tea smallholders were not registered by March 2021
| China Tea Exports Decline as Travel Restrictions Ease
| Kenya Tea Production is Up, Exports are Down

Tea News for the week ending Aug. 18

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Episode 128

| Unilever Brands Are Not for Sale
| Dunkin’ Will Soon Begin Selling Hard Tea at Select US Locations
| A Study of UK Biobank Data Shows Tea May Lower the Risk of Gout

Tea News for the week ending Aug. 11

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Episode 127

Sustainable Practices are Correlated to Brand Loyalty: Age and Income Influence Consumer Loyalty, Healthy Brand Attributes Help

| JDE Peet’s Will Halt Sales of its Best-Known Tea Brands in Russia
| UN Global Peace Council Honors WomenServe Founder Nioma Narissa Sadler

Tea News for the week ending Aug. 4

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Episode 126

Kenya’s KTDA Chair Resigns Following Tea Reforms Conference

| David Ichoho Later Filed and then Withdrew a Lawsuit Alleging His Resignation was Forced
| Nestle Announces Cost-Effective Sugar Reduction Technology
| AriZona Unveils a 5% ABV Hard Iced Tea – Monster is next

Tea News for the week ending July 28

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Episode 125

Unrelenting Heat is Lowering Tea Yields

| Global average air temperatures reach a new high
| Herbal Tea Market Growth is Accelerating
| Dilmah Tea Founder Merrill J Fernando Passes at 93

Tea News for the week ending July 21

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Scotland Court Will Hear Kenyan Tea Workers’ Lawsuit

| The landmark class action was filed against James Finlay Kenya
| Market Leading Twisted Hard Tea Doubles Down on ABV
| EGCG is a Promising Treatment for Uterine Fibroids

Tea News for the week ending July 14

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Kenya Convenes National Tea Summit to Address Unrest

| Kenya Deputy President Promises Action on Lagging Tea Act Reforms
| The World Awaits the Hottest Days On Record
| Author Horacio Bustos Announces an English Edition of El Té Gourmet Argentino

Tea News for the week ending July 7

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Sri Lanka Restarts $250 Million Tea Barter to Settle Iranian Oil Debt

| India Exporters Expect Iran to Resume Tea Orders Halted Last November
| Israel Declares Wissotzky Tea a Monopoly
| Rohit Jawa Takes Charge at Hindustan Unilever

Tea News for the week ending June 30

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India’s Tea Board Orders a Review of its Raw Leaf Price-Sharing Formula

| Consultancy BDO India has six months to complete an extensive report on cultivation and processing costs
| Fast-food Outlets Have Yet to Rollout Boba Nationally
| The European Speciality Tea Association Offers Tea Foundation Certificates to Coffee Shop Staff

Tea News for the week ending June 23

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Scrutiny of Tea Supply Chain Intensifies

| An online Tea Traceability Tracker permits consumers to compare the sustainability policies of tea supply chains
| Tea Auction Prices Remain Firm as Inflation Ebbs
| DAVIDsTEA is Adding Tea Bars to its Retail Locations

Tea News for the week ending June 16

| NEWSMAKER – TeaFit founder Jyoti Bharadwaj on the Sweet Success of unsweetened tea

Tea News for the week ending June 9

Thirst-Quenching Cold Brewed Teas are Steaming Along

| Consumers favor boldly flavored, non-sweetened blends
| Kenya’s Costly Tea Crisis
| India Tea Association Lists Tea Industry’s Most Pressing Concerns

| GUEST – Romesh Walpola, Chief Executive Officer of Tea Smallholder Factories, a Division of John Keells Group, Sri Lanka, discusses how bought leaf factories Earn Smallholder Loyalty to Achieve Competitive Quality Tea