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Good news as tea prices at the Mombasa Auction rise

Tea prices at the Mombasa Auction have begun to show signs of recovery after a sharp drop experienced a year ago.

Although the gains are marginal, the fact that the trend in price is upward should bring some consolation to Kenya’s over 560,000 smallholder farmers who suffered a major erosion in their earnings last year, following a sharp price drop in the global price of the commodity.

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