Producers earn top dollar from specialty tea exports

Tea pickers. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Specialty tea from the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) earned the company as high as Sh29,973 ($291) a kilogramme at international markets in the last financial year, making it the agency’s most profitable offering.

According to Tea Directorate, for green tea KTDA’s Kangaita factory grossed the top price, Tumoi Teas was second at Sh15,450 ($150). Transnational subsidiary, James Finlay, was placed at number three with Sh1,545 ($15) dollars a kilo.

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