If you wouldn’t do something for all the tea in China, are you cheating yourself? China produces 855,190 metric tons of tea leaf annually. At commodity prices of $1.86 per kilogram, you’re missing out on at least $1,590,653,400. Feh. Next time, tell ’em you don’t get out of bed for less than all the coffee in Brazil - $6,645,461,089.
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That's more than the gross national product of the nation of Brazil! Go back to your calculators, guys!!!
contributed by on Jan 24 7:24pm
Your estimate for the price of tea in China is off by three orders of magnitude.
contributed by on Jan 25 1:19pm
It's worth less than all the Coke in China:-)
There was a typo (or a malicious edit) in the wiki, and three extra zeros were added to some of the numbers. If you look in a copy of the magazine, you'll see the correct numbers. I've fixed the numbers here.
contributed by on Jan 28 8:46am