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Tea production drop by 31m kilos in a year

By Nikko Tanui | 4yrs ago

A farmer picking tea in Kericho. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Tea production dropped in the country by 38 million kilogrammes in the past one year, the tea agency has announced.

The Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) report blamed the reduction in production on climate change and revealed that the country produced 538m kg compared to the 570m kg recorded in 2020.

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