Besides production, India is also among the world's top tea-consuming countries, with 80% of the tea produced in the country consumed by the domestic population.
Earlier this week, the Pu’er tea was sold at Rs 9000 a kg, a record price in its category. Nilesh Divekar of Shangrila Enterprise, a buyer of Pu’er tea, told a local media outlet, “I have been learning from small tea growers and helping them get a good price and a market. There is a need to diversify and go beyond black and green tea.”