TOKYO -- Prices for black tea have risen sharply as extreme heat, floods and disease have ravaged plantations in India, one of the world's largest tea growers.
Benchmark auction prices of tea from northern India averaged around 260 rupees ($3.10) per kilogram in late September, up about 30% year-on-year. Prices began to rise in April.
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