Murimi cleared some 20,000 bushes of green tea on his four-acre farm in Ndumanu, Mathira constituency, to make way for the new variety. His farm has so far enrolled 86 purple tea farmers from Ragati catchment area in Mathira as well as Kirinyaga County for which he will be processing the tea. "I received the machine from the Purple Tea Association of which I am a member and I have all the licences to process. In the international market, purple tea fetches up to Sh2,000 per kilo as compared to Sh280 per kilo for green tea. ORTHODOX TEA FARMINGFor Tea Directorate to license a cottage industry, one has to own 54 acres of land under purple tea.

Source: Daily Nation July 10, 2020 21:00 UTC