Tagged: pests

A Longer Breeding Season Is Raising Tea's Pest Bill

India's Tea Research Association puts pest damage at 147 million kilograms of tea a year, about $318 million, and researchers now tie the rising toll to longer summers and shorter winters. Here is the mechanism, the regional split, and what growers are trying instead of more spray.

Climate and the Tea Supply

The canonical reference on how a warming, less predictable climate reaches the tea trade. The plant's physiological limits, the two shapes exposure takes, why a weather shock does not move the price the way it looks like it should, the three adaptation levers and who pays for each, and the pest and insurance gaps still mostly unclosed.