Tagged: monsoon
Article · Climate & Supply
How El Nino and La Nina Split the Tea Harvest
The same El Nino can put record volumes of tea on the ground in Kenya while raising drought risk in Sri Lanka, in the same months. What the ENSO cycle actually does to the harvest, region by region, and why a real statistical link to it still will not forecast a season.
Article · Climate & Supply
Why a Drought Doesn't Always Raise the Tea Price
Two Kenyan droughts, a dry Assam monsoon, and a Sri Lankan cyclone give four real, recent tests of what a weather shock does to the tea price. The answer is not the simple shortage story it looks like from outside.