Data by East African Tea Traders Association indicates only tea worth Sh228.8 million was offloaded from the auction against that valued at Sh302.3 million last week. In trading held on Tuesday, a kilogramme of tea on average went up to Sh203, up from Sh193 realised last week. Tea prices have been falling in the last two months but have rebounded in the last two sales as volumes offered started coming down because of the ongoing drought. The volumes offered for sale this week dropped from 7.275 million kilos to 7.2 million as adverse effects of droughts hit tea farmers and factories. Over 40,000 tea factory workers have been forced to go on advance leave as production went down by half.

Source: Daily Nation April 18, 2019 18:55 UTC