Uganda’s estimated 600,000 smallholder farmers continue to earn low returns from their toil, even when overall production has ...

The tea industry information indicates that 60,000 smallholder farmers still earn a paltry Shs183-Shs330 ($0.05- $0.09) per ...

Traders say neighbours of conflict-torn countries have seen a surge in demand for tea.

of tea at the Mombasa auction. The market report indicates the Mombasa facility auctioned a total of 12.3 million kgs, consisting of 10.2 million kgs from KTDA factories and independent tea producers.

Tea trade experts in Mombasa are now calling for concerted efforts ... calling on farmers to diversify and shift from producing black to green tea, fetching better prices at the international ...

KTDA has sold 102 million kilos of tea stranded at the Mombasa Tea Auction, hence preventing a crisis at the sector that has been driven by high volumes of the commodity over the years.

Uganda’s tea prices at the Mombasa Tea Auction have shown a notable improvement, surpassing the $1 (about shillings 3,660) mark and reaching an average price of $1.14 per kilogram, according to ...

"The FESCO Shipping Group organized the marine container service between Novorossiysk and the largest Kenyan port of Mombasa," it informed. The first batch of the Kenyan tea is being loaded in ...

The situation is dire, with the average price of Ugandan black tea in the Mombasa auction falling sharply from around $2 per kilogramme of made tea to the current less than $1 per kilogramme, below ...