Tea industry’s future depends on its farmers

Women picking tea leaves at a tea plantation in Limuru, Kiambu County on June 5, 2023.

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The tea in your cup today began its journey in someone else's hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about.

Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a plot, plucking leaves under long mornings of mist and rain. Two leaves and a bud. Thousands of times. Smallholders account for about 60 percent of global tea supply.

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