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SciDev.Net: Some of Uganda's most lucrative tea plantations could be "wiped off the map" under the 2.3 degree Celsius temperature rise predicted for 2050, a study has said.
Even with the expected one degree Celsius rise by 2020, the 60,000 small farmers who grow Uganda's high-quality tea could face a 30 to 48 per cent decline in output, scientists at the Colombia-based International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) have said.
Yields are expected to shrink and optimum tea-producing zones will shift......
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Uganda’s tea trade threatened by rising temperatures
Posted by SciDev.Net: Peter Wamboga-Mugirya on September 12th, 2011
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