Battered by falling prices, Kenya's tea farmers threaten to uproot

Emerald-coloured tea bushes blanketing the rolling hills of Nandi County have long provided a livelihood for small-scale farmers, helping make Kenya one of the world's biggest tea exporters.

But ideal weather and bigger harvests, instead of producing bumper earnings, have led to a glut of Kenya's speciality black tea. Samuel Busienei, a 72-year-old tea farmer, says he earns 40 percent less for each kilogramme of tea sold than he did three years ago and is considering tearing up his crop.