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Climate change threatens S Africa tea crops

2012-07-25 9 Dailymotion

The health benefits of a unique tea called Rooibos has helped create a multi-million dollar a year industry in South Africa.<br /><br />The plant only grows in some parts of the Western Cape. Attempts to grow it in similar dry regions of Australia, China and the United States have all failed.<br /><br />Now, experts are predicting increased temperatures and erratic rainfall in the region, and tea growers say that climate change is putting the crop's future - and the industry as a whole - at risk.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from the Western Cape.

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