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NEWS - Here are the headlines: Montreal-based DAVIDsTEA is undergoing a remarkable transformation…. Tea companies report strong sales and many new functional, and condition-specific teas… the British increased their tea intake 27 percent – dunking 61 billion tea bags last year … and Tea sales slow in Canada following a spring sprint.

FEATURES - This week we travel to Malawi, Africa where industry veteran Ranjit Dasgupta profiles a growing region gaining a reputation for producing innovative and sustainable specialty tea….

And to the Nilgiri Mountains in South India where hundreds of small growers in 100-member “farm producer groups” are collectively learning how to transition from fertilizer- and pesticide-dependent land practices to the organic cultivation of tea.