Nepal’s tea sector suffering from shortage of chemical fertiliser

Lack of adequate fertiliser could cause a 30 percent drop in tea output this year, insiders say.

Tea farmer Parbat Dangi of Jhapa is used to facing regular shortages of chemical fertiliser, but this year things are especially bad. He does not have a grain of fertiliser to apply on his 10-bigha tea garden in Haldibari in Nepal’s eastern Tarai plains.