1.   Much of the growth is attributed to the booming tea industry, with world tea prices skyrocketing.

2.   Tea prices have also moved higher at all the main auction centers in producing countries such as Kenya, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.

3.   World tea prices are at an all-time high.

4.   In Dhaka, the daily Financial Express newspaper said good crops in Sri Lanka, India and Kenya caused tea prices to slump.

5.   Brokers said Kenya, the key African producer, was unwilling to enter any forum which had the potential eventually to impose export quotas to regulate world tea prices.

6.   Crumbling production levels in east Africa, where output has fallen by half, combined with low stock levels in India caused tea prices to rise sharply this week.

7.   Kenyan tea prices climbed slightly this week following higher demand, but trading fell off towards the end of the day, brokers said Tuesday.

8.   Tea prices remained calm this week.

9.   Sri Lanka was able to take greater advantage of the rising tea prices last year with a bumper harvest.

10.   Tea prices have been swept away by the same fever as coffee and cocoa and have risen sharply in the London auction houses.