Changing Rainfall and Swinging Tea Production: The Correlates and Perception of Social Ecology of Te

After water, tea is the second most regularly drank beverage on the planet. However, various climatic elements like as temperature, rainfall, altitude, and others have a significant impact on the quality and aroma of the fruit. Even little changes in these climatic parameters have a negative impact on quality and production. Climate change, a global issue, poses a significant danger to the tea industry and its workers. Hundreds of tea gardens have closed in recent decades due to deteriorating quality and fluctuating productivity due to shifting rainfall and temperature. putting livelihood of thousands of tea workers to question. This paper attempts to find how the changing rainfall and swinging tea production varies with the profile characteristics of the tea workers. The study was conducted in the Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Dooars districts of West Bengal with 90 randomly selected tea workers from nine randomly selected tea gardens, three each belonging to three different altitudes. All the results has been analyzed using statistical tools of correlation coefficient, multiple and stepwise regression and path analysis. The results shows that treatment and mobility are two important variable explaining the variation in perception on change in rainfall and perception on tea production respectively. It has also been found that variables like income, treatment and garments have been reliable predictors for estimating the change in rainfall whereas the variable mobility exhibits a positive and significant relationship with perceived change in tea production. Treatment explained 19.4 percent of total variation in reported change in rainfall, while mobility explained 16 percent of total variation in perceived change in tea production, according to the regression analysis.

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