As I understand the article, India now imports cheaper tea from abroad.  What is not made clear is that this is the aspect of fair trade that concerns the emerging nations.  Individual countries cannot, under fair trade, maintain protective import duties to keep their own native industry alive and profitable.  

This is what fair trade is about.

The article further fails to make clear that the tea workers are farming organically, thereby creating a specialized niche for their product in the world.  The remaining farms who do not for various reasons, farm organically, are victims of "fair trade" who leave them with a product they cannot sell at a profit.  
The article scarcely cover the major impact of "fair trade", the extinction of the small landowner and farmer.  
Just the one scentence dedicated to the result of "fair trade" is included in the article; that more and more of the plantations are reverting the the colonial era style of ownership---huge acreage amassed into a single ownership.  The only difference between colonial ownership and the huge land-owing corporations formed under "fair trade" is that one is now promoted and the other out of favor.  
In actual fact there is no difference to the worker who now has to work at the global conglomerate on land that is not his and never will be for a pittance so he will make the product sellable on the world market where somebody else always makes lower wages than him.  
Fair Trade is not fair for the worker force to compete; fair trade is a disguise for global corporates to be heralded as the new enterprise!