"Ronnie H" writes:

Published in today's [UK] Daily Telegraph:

Darjeeling tea plantations go to pot
By Rahul Bedi in Darjeeling
(Filed: 18/10/2003)


[...various kinds of decline...]

A productivity drop that has seen output fall by more than a third to around
20 million lbs a year, a 62 per cent rise in labour costs and a market
collapse in its main buyers, the Soviet Union and Iraq, have combined into a
formula for disaster.

Darjeeling's main buyers were the USSR and Iraq? That can't be
right.

/Lew
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