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Scientists in the Black Sea province of Rize have initiated a study to identify drought-tolerant tea varieties in response to the looming threat posed by global warming and its impact on tea cultivation.

Workers from African countries, who filled the void to pick tea in the northern province of Rize last year after the border was sealed for Georgian workers due to the coronavirus pandemic, have lent a hand to Turkish tea plantation owners this year too.

Workers from Gambia, Senegal, Sudan and Zambia, residing in Turkey with work permits, flocked to Rize to pick tea.

Tea producers in Turkey have begun making their way to the country's northeastern Rize province to collect this year's harvest since they have been exempt from far-reaching lockdown measures against the novel coronavirus.

Turkey’s General Directorate of Tea Enterprises (Çaykur) was exporting tea to 110 countries by the end of 2017, according to Çaykur Chairman İmdat Sütlüoğlu.

The Public Prosecutor's Office in the Black Sea province of Rize has launched an investigation into five suspects from the Medipol Başakşehir football team in connection with an assault on two journalists following a game with Çaykur Rizespor a day earlier, Doğan News Agency has reported.