Tea Annual Report 2018 RA Program

[Pages:25]Tea Annual Report 2018 RA Program

May 2019

Introduction

The main goal of this report is to present the scope and scale of the RA tea program in 2018 ? calendar year. The report is written in order to inform our stakeholders and is part of our commitment to transparency. The report focuses on the key indicators related to: o Program reach: RA tea production and multi-certification of this production o Market uptake: sales of RA tea This report is part of the Rainforest Alliance monitoring and evaluation system. Most of the data in this report is collected via our traceability systems. We do our best to make sure that all of the information in this report is accurate and reliable, but as much of the data is collected by third parties, we are aware that there may be some shortcomings. We look forward to receiving your feedback. For more information, please contact the Farm & Supply Chain Intelligence Department at datarequest@

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Reach RA tea program Estimated production Multi-certification Global Sales Supply and Demand trend

Reach RA Tea program

Tea Annual Report 2018 - RA Program

Geographical reach

In 2018, 427 Certificate Holders in 20 different countries across the globe are part of the RA Tea Program

Latin America

Argentina Ecuador

Africa

Ethiopia Kenya Malawi Mozambique Rwanda Tanzania Uganda Zimbabwe

Asia-Pacific

Australia Bangladesh China India Indonesia Japan Nepal Sri Lanka Turkey Viet Nam

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Program reach

Area (ha)

Relative change 2017-2018:

+ 8%

Number of certificate holders + 8%

Number of producers - 0.1%

8 % increase in Certificate Holders (from 397 to 427) 0.10 % decrease in the number of producers (Similar numbers between 2017 and 2018)

Producers represents the number of individual farmers included in the scope of a certificate. Certificate Holders refers to the number of certificates. Each certificate could be made of multiple individual farmers. Production Ha is the Certified production area of the Certificate scope

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Program reach

593,481

Area (hectare)

427

# certificate holders

878,182

# producers

8%

Relative growth 2017-2018

8%

Relative growth 2017-2018

0.1%

Relative growth 2017-2018

8 % increase in Certificate Holders (from 397 to 427) 0.10 % decrease in the number of producers (Similar numbers between 2017 and 2018)

Producers represents the number of individual farmers included in the scope of a certificate.

Certificate Holders refers to the number of certificates. Each certificate could be made of multiple individual farmers.

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Tea Annual Report 2018 - RA Program Production Ha is the Certified production area of the Certificate scope

Number of producers per country

Relative change

(2017-2018)

+7% -100% 8%

4%

-1% 6%

12% -42% 15% -26% 0%

53%

On December 31st 2018, no valid certificates in Burundi, which explains the decrease In Sri Lanka, 3 important groups (13.681 producers in total) had their certificate cancelled

Others includes : Zimbabwe, Nepal, Argentina, Uganda, Japan, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Australia, Ecuador, Mozambique

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