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Shifting monsoons to hit tea crops, researchers warn

2016-04-25 08:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Home: Slow changes in the annual monsoon season may be reducing yields in one of the worlds most important crops and gradually watering down the tea in China. Scientists in the US have used a new approach to examine harvests of Camellia sinensis the evergreen bush whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea - in southern Yunnan and other regions of China, and have identified a decline that could only be linked to the retreat of the monsoon, along with greater levels of downpour. That...

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