India's Global Tea Trade: Reducing Shares Declining Competitiveness (CMA Publication No. 235)

India's Global Tea Trade: Reducing Shares Declining Competitiveness (CMA Publication No. 235)
Author: V.N. Asopa
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2011-06-20
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 8184246781

This study is at macro level, India focused, and in a comparative perspective with Kenya and Sri Lanka. No more a leader in global tea markets, India's importance in the world tea trade is now mainly because of a huge production and a large domestic market. Sri Lanka is resurging perusing competitive market strategies through value added products and quality control. India and Kenya continue to be largely in commodity forms in their tea exports. India is falling behind in almost every market. In contrast Kenya, relatively a new producer, has been increasing its share. The case studies from Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and Japan Tea market and a comparative discussion of auctions and infrastructure included in the book are instructive in understanding of the competition and competitiveness in global tea trade. Analyzing markets and understanding and evaluating competitive positions can help the Indian tea industry to develop competitive product market strategies. The all important question is, can India retrieve its lost competitive position in the global tea trade? If yes, what strategies need to be followed by various stakeholders? A host of issues arise in this context and the study that follows deals with them. The book would be of interest to all involved in global tea trade and policy makers.

Tea War

Tea War
Author: Andrew B. Liu
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300252331

A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.

Global Tea Trade

Global Tea Trade
Author: Gangadhar Banerjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2008
Genre: Tea trade
ISBN:

With indepth study on tea trade of India.

The World Tea Trade

The World Tea Trade
Author: Denys Mostyn Forrest
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1985
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This book covers every aspect of the production, processing, marketing and consumption of tea. It provides information to all those involved in tea trading and other commodities as well as for business researchers, students and laymen.

Sri Lanka's Tea Industry

Sri Lanka's Tea Industry
Author: Ridwan Ali
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 368. The global tea industry reached maturity over a decade ago and is now in a critical period when fundamental changes are taking place in the competitive environment. This paper identifies some of the major strengths and weaknesses of Sri Lanka's tea industry with respect to other major exporters in the world and examines the strategic options of the Sri Lankan government and private tea companies for enhancing the country�s competitive position in the global market. Part 1 discusses the overall global market for tea, the world tea economy, and major competitors in the global tea market. Part 2 discusses the strategic issues of the production and marketing of tea, including the product market system and competitive dynamics, strategies for creating global competitive advantage for Sri Lanka's tea industry, and advanced strategies for the country�s future.

Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing the Value Chain of Vietnam Tea Industry

Developing Tea Market Through Analyzing the Value Chain of Vietnam Tea Industry
Author: Nguyen Cong Bien
Publisher:
Total Pages: 7
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

Nowadays, the international trade in agricultural products is very well-organized, largely controlled by multinational supermarket chains. Because of increased consumer knowledge, the supermarket's demand for quality of agricultural products, which are based on the consumer needs in developed countries, is more and more high-required and becoming a technical barrier of many developing countries considering agricultural exports as a lever for economic development. Tea is identified as a major export product of Vietnam by the government. Tea production is an economic sector in the production development for rural agricultural area in the mountainous midland where tea is as a strategic product for export, helps to earn foreign currency for the country, and create employment for huge workforce. Moreover, the tea industry which is also one of the potential industries would increase a quantity (low tea yields), a quality (due to low quality of tea) and a selling price when the tea quality increases, the type of tea is increasing, then the price increases. Because tea plays the important role as one of Vietnam's important export agricultural products, it is definitely necessary for research investment to develop policies and solutions for developing the value chain of tea and increasing the added value of tea, particularly in intense competition of the world tea market where the demand for this product is decreasing due to the global economic crisis, and the number of suppliers participating in the tea market is increasing and becoming more and more professional. This article confirms that the development of tea export market of Vietnam is a right direction. The article shows that enhancing the value chain of tea industry is one of the factors promoting the development of the Vietnam tea market during the period of international integration. The paper, thence, proposes some solutions to develop the tea market Vietnam in the future.

Sri Lanka's Tea Industry

Sri Lanka's Tea Industry
Author: Ridwan Ali
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780821340011

World Bank Discussion Paper No. 367. Many developing countries enforce seed regulations and other policies that obstruct private companies from operating and delivering new technology. This volume presents recommendations and selected papers from an international workshop organized by the World Bank in 1995 to review seed policies and to develop recommendations on ways of easing entry barriers for certain varieties of seeds in developing countries. The papers and discussions identified reforms to speed the flow of private seed technology to these countries, with a particular focus on reforms and their impacts in Bangladesh, India, Peru, and Turkey.