FAO raise concern over low tea prices
Business
By
Antony Gitonga
| May 30, 2016
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has expressed its concern over low prices of tea globally. According to the organisation, small scale-farmers are the most affected because of the relatively low socio-economic returns associated with tea farming.
This comes days after the Ministry of Agriculture announced that tea prices had dropped by 30 per cent due to a surplus in the market. This emerged at the end of the 22nd section of the FAO-IGG conference on tea held in Naivasha and attended by delegates from across the globe.
According to FAO representative in the meeting Kaison Wang, tea production by small-scale farmers was on the rise despite the price challenge. Kaison noted that green leaf prices were not sufficient to sustain the livelihood of farmers.
—ANTONY GITONGA
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