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Kenya: Major Tea Market Threatened?

Although there is growing demand for Kenyan tea, erratic rains have cut production and a major foreign importer has decided to start growing its own crop.
David Blumenkrantz

Kenya: Tea picker in Murang'a.

Daily Nation

Kenya: Workers on a tea farm.

Daily Nation

Kenya: A worker picks tea leaves.

  • Kenya:   Major Tea Market Threatened

    Nation, 4 August 2011

    Kenya is set to lose a big chunk of its tea export market following a move by one of its major importers, the UK, to start growing its own crop. Read more »

  • Kenya:   Tea Output Slumps Due to Erratic Rainfall

    Business Daily, 29 July 2011

    Erratic rains have squeezed tea production by 16.2 per cent in the first half of the year even as official statistics indicate growing demand for Kenya's produce in the domestic… Read more »

  • Kenya:   Houses Replace Tea, Coffee in Kisii Town

    The Star, 27 July 2011

    Kisii town's landscape is fast changing in the face of new housing developments. An agro-based economic zone once dotted with coffee, tea and banana plantations, the town is… Read more »

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