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This Green Tea market appears to be the most promising field for exploiting 
at the present time. The manufacture of such Tea has the additional advantage of 
reducing the supply of Black, as for every pound of Green Tea made a pound of 
Black would be displaced. Hence the advantage obtained would be two-fold. 
The curtailment of output is not such an easy matter and requires the 
co-operation of a large body of Planters both in India and Ceylon, whose interests 
are perhaps not on all points quite identical. 
The diagram on the first page shows how rapidly the World's consumption of 
British-grown Tea has increased. The development in foreign markets duiing the 
last 1 1 years has been remarkable, and has had the eflfect of saving the Industry, so 
far, from a crisis such as may yet be probably averted if strenuous efforts are made 
in the way of more vigorously opening up existing outlets and finding new means 
of exploiting hitherto untried markets. 
The World's production and consumption of Tea in the years 1895 and 
1900, as nearly as can be ascertained, are shown below : — 
Indian 
Ceylon 
China 
Japan 
Java 
1895. 
EXPORTS. 
135,894,648 
97,939,871 
248,800,000 
49,544,000 
10,597,000 
CONSUMPTION. 
INDIAN & CEYLON. 
United Kingdom ., 
U.S.A. & Canada . 
Russia & Germany 
Australasia ... 
Turkey & Persia . 
Holland ... 
South Africa 
France 
Other Countries . 
190,367,123 
7,816,467 
4,609,626 
15,492,926 
5,263,419 
573,660 
691,985 
196,276 
2,094,767 
lbs. 227,106,249 
CHINA, &c. 
31,432,877 
109,231,533 
93,471,374 
15,080,415 
2,736,581 
5,839,340 
2,308,015 
1,407,724 
6,995,233 
268,503,092 
Total lbs. 
233,834,519 
308,941,000 
Total lbs.... 542,775,519 
495,609,341 
Surplus lbs. 47,166,178 
Indian 
Ceylon 
China 
Japan 
Java ... 
1900. 
EXPORTS. 
185,641,303 
148,431,689 
184,532,000 
61,028,000 
16,788,000 
Total lbs. 
CONSUMPTION. 
INDIAN & CEYLON. 
United Kingdom... 
Russia & Germany 
U.S.A. & Canada 
Australasia 
Turkey & Persia ... 
South America 
Holland 
South Africa 
France 
Austria & Hungary 
Other Countries ... 
230,495,035 
21,683,785 
15,851,582 
27,185,538 
8,970,655 
1,452,744 
797,968 
2,585,214 
572,784 
27,538 
3,524,855 
CHINA. &c. 
19,296,965 
110,783,215 
92,419,418 
7,355,462 
2,029,345 
4,047,256 
6,867,032 
1,414,786 
1,822,216 
2,319,462 
5,250,757 
lbs. 313,147,698 253,605,914 
Total lbs. ... 
334,072,942 
262,348,000 
596,420,942 
566,753,61: 
Surplus lbs. 29,667,330 
In the former year production and consumption of Indian Tea prettv nearlv 
balanced although China Tea was over-produced, with the result that exports from 
that country have rapidly declined ever since, and the average price has fallen to 
an extremely low point. 
In 1900 production of British grown Tea was far in excess of requirements, 
the result being also a heavy fall in value. The moral to be drawn from the 
over-production of China may well be used as a lesson bv Indian and Ceylon 
Tea Growers before disaster overtakes the Industry. 
The Tea-drinking capacities of the world appear by no means e.xhausted, and 
there is therefore no reason whv, with little Tea land being planted out either 
in India or Ceylon, consumption should not, with judicious energy on the part of 
Planters, soon overtake production. 
GOW, WILSON STAXTOX. 
I Rood Laxe. London, E.C. 
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