Sh2,500
per bag, down from Sh6,000
Agriculture
2024
Tea reforms lift smallholder earnings by 15.8%
Reserve pricing, reformed KTDA governance and a crackdown on the auction cartel raised the bonus paid to smallholder tea farmers.
+15.8%
smallholder tea earnings
Tea is grown by more than 600,000 smallholder families, yet the price at the Mombasa auction was being suppressed by a handful of buyers.
- A reserve price was introduced at the auction so tea could not be dumped below cost.
- KTDA governance was reformed to return control of factory boards to the farmers who own them.
- Smallholder farmer earnings rose 15.8%, with record bonus payouts in successive years.
Alongside tea, the leather industry's processing capacity rose 30% and sunflower acreage grew 8.3% as value-addition policy took hold.
Source:
Kenya News Agency
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