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Journal Article
The changing seasons of tea
2019
Overview
Climate change is pushing rainfall in Assam to the extremes, leading to an overall decrease in precipitation but with more instances of drought and heavy rain. [...]the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that, in the next 50 years, the end of the East Asia monsoon season will be pushed back. Agroforestry provides tea plants with more shade, which helps to protect them from the heat of the Sun, and also reduces the amount of moisture that tea plants lose by transpiration, protects them from frost, and helps to prevent soil erosion. Soil conservation is the most common practice, with 82-100% of plantations doing things such as: covering soil with mulch (to conserve moisture); contour farming (in which crops or drainage ditches are located along terraces that follow the slope of the land to help water better soak into the soil and prevent erosion); providing shade for tea plants; or filling in bare ground with vegetation. The Tea Research Association in Jorhat, Assam, suggests that there should be more region-wide efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, including management of water resources across entire watersheds, which comprise areas of land drained by specific rivers.
