PRODUCER COUNTRY TEA MARKETS HAVE MARGIN FOR GROWTH
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UN Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is advising tea-exporting countries to stimulate demand in their domestic markets, because major growing sales are unlikely in traditional importers of black tea, such as Britain and Russia. Here, "scope for expansion in consumption is quite limited...but in the countries where tea is produced the per capita consumption is much lower and so there is a lot more market potential," said Kaison Chang, secretary of FAO's inter-governmental group on tea. He said tea-producing country consumers ...
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