Tagged: tea board of kenya

Why a Drought Doesn't Always Raise the Tea Price

Two Kenyan droughts, a dry Assam monsoon, and a Sri Lankan cyclone give four real, recent tests of what a weather shock does to the tea price. The answer is not the simple shortage story it looks like from outside.

The World's Biggest Tea Growers Are Not Its Biggest Tea Drinkers

Turkey and Ireland top the per-person tea rankings. China, India, and Kenya, which grow and export almost all of the world's leaf, sit far down the list. The gap is not about taste. It is about how much of a harvest a country keeps for itself.

KTDA, the Company That Runs Kenya's Smallholder Tea

One management company runs the factories that process tea for roughly 600,000 Kenyan smallholders, pays them on a two-tier system split between a monthly rate and a year-end bonus, and answers to no single owner. Here is how it is built, how the money moves, and where the fights over it keep breaking out.