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Tea farmers a happy lot as reforms change their fortunes

Tea sales account for about 23 per cent of total foreign exchange earnings and 2 per cent of the Agricultural GDP.

There's no crop that has placed Kenya on the international map like tea - Camellia sinensis - has. Kenya is the largest exporter of tea in the world: accounting for about 28 per cent of tea exports.

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