Factors Affecting Tea Production in Kenya ( places like Kericho )

Hello friend , I hope your good I need to cover with you foctors that affect tea farming in kenya , before I start let me say that tea is a cash crop grown in highlands of rift valley west site mostly in a place know as kericho , In Kericho tea farming is. Done in large scale , also tea farming is done on central kenya and places like Embu and some part Meru.

Factors affecting Tea farming in places like kericho in Kenya

You find out that it is becoming very expensive to hire workers to work in tea plantations because the pay out is very low.

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Tea is affected by pest and deseases that are now becoming hand to control I is expensive to splay the large scale farm .

Competition in the market

Tea quality is what matter out there in the market some countries have good tea than the one produced in Kenya .

So we end up selling our tea at lower prices .

Tea farming requires skill , you need to know proper pruning.

I would like to recommend KTDA to educate farmers on tea farming .

With damage in ozone rayer now climate has changed in many places not only kenya but the all over world .

Some time No rainfall or too much rain affecting farmers .

Corruption in Tea companies in kenya

Sometime back farmers lost a lot of money and were not paid this affect tea farming and farmers migrates to other farming like coffee farming .

I wish government can deal with the corrupt guys at KTDA companies .

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