Kenya's tea output drops 8.5 per cent in first nine months of the year

Kenya’s tea production fell 8.5 per cent in the first nine months of the year to 316.80 million kilogrammes, from the same period a year earlier, mainly due to dry weather conditions, the industry regulator said in a report seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

The East African nation is the leading exporter of black tea in the world and the crop is also one of its top foreign exchange-earners, along with tourism, flower exports and cash sent home by the diaspora.