Tea exports to Sudan up 27pc on lifting of shelf-life cut order

Tea exports to Sudan increased by 27 per cent last year following Khartoum’s suspension of a cut in official shelf-life for the Kenyan beverage from three to one-and-a-half years.

Tea directorate says the volumes grew to 27 million kilogrammes from 19 million kilos in 2015, after an unilateral agreement to suspend the directive by the Sudanese government last March.