Representative Achmad Tea: Tea prices will not increase

About 300 thousand employees of the Indian region of the Indian region, North Bengal, announced an unlimited strike, reports Hindu. This region accounts for 25% of the total tea production in India. “This is a complete stop of the production process from collecting to processing,” said K. David, chairman of the Indian Tea Association. According to the top manager of Achmad Tea in Moscow, Andrei Alekseev, the stopping of production on one of the main tea plantations in the world will not discover the crisis in the supply of tea to Russia, he informed Polit.ru that the strategy of tea importers provides for the preservation of price corridor in case of force majeure. "So it was when last year on Ceylon was dried up world prices rose by 10-15%. In principle, we hope for the normalization of the situation, and are ready for the prices for consumers do not increase."