Kenya's tea exports fall.(Commodities)

African Review of Business and Technology,  October, 2006  

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KENYA'S TEA PRODUCTION saw a 13 per cent rise in July to 23mn kg, mainly on account of increased production in the tea-growing regions west of the Rift Valley due to favourable weather conditions. This came as a welcome turnaround as severe drought had hit the country's tea production in the first quarter of the year, leading to a cumulative 19 per cent or 32.5mn kg fall in output year-on-year for the first six months of 2006.

Cumulative tea production in the first seven months of 2006 consequently fell short of output for the same period last year by 29mn kg, according to the Tea ...

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