Kenya's Tea Farmers Took Home Less in a Year the Shilling Got Stronger

A tea garden is paid in its own currency for a crop sold against the US dollar, so the exchange rate can move a season's income more than the harvest does. Kenya and India lived through opposite versions of that mechanism in the same year.

The Tea Auctions

How tea is priced and sold. The canonical reference on the world's tea auctions: how a sale actually works, the major centres at Mombasa, Colombo, and across India, the move from the outcry floor to the screen, and what an auction price really means.