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My experience with purple tea

There is a lot of hype around purple tea. There is talk that it has myriad health benefits and that it sells like hot cake and at a good price. One farmer has ‘tried and tasted’ it and shares his experience with Smart Harvest.

Three years ago, Robert Murimi dived into the uncertain field of purple tea farming. The retired teacher started planting green tea in 1971, on his three acre farm in Mathira Constituency, Nyeri County.

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