Kenya: Tea auction plans automated trade; Uganda: Government to sell all tea estates to local farmers; Bangladesh: Tea production up for the first time since December 2005; India: August tea production up by 7.1% y/y; Indonesia: Jakarta plans land reform to cut poverty; Sri Lanka: August exports reach all time high; Vietnam: Exports fall to 7,000 t in September; Once again, strong demand from Sri Lanka's major export markets in Africa and the Middle East were the driving force behind the country's export performance in the first eight months of 2006 and this is expected to lead to a new, all-time record for the fourth year running. Sri Lanka shipped 218,132 tonnes of tea in January/August 2006, up by 11.9% from the 194,990 tonnes exported the same period last year. Shipments of homegrown teas increased to 210,584 tonnes from 188,578 while re-exports rose to 7,548 tonnes from 6,412. With the exception of July, shipments were higher in every month this year than in the corresponding months in 2005. Moreover, exports hit all-time highs in four of the last eight months and the August figure (32,190 tonnes) was the largest quantity ever shipped in any month in any year in the history of the country's tea trade.
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