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Tea is a major cash crop that is grown in Kenya.Kenyan tea has been the leading major foreign exchange earner for the country. Most tea produced in Kenya is black tea, with green tea, yellow tea, white tea, and purple tea (a product whose leaves are naturally so colored by inherent anthocyanins) [1] produced on order by major tea producers.
Location of Kericho, Kenya (old provinces pictured) Tea country surrounding Kericho. Kericho is the largest town in Kericho County, located in the highlands west of the Kenyan Rift Valley. Positioned on the edge of the Mau Forest, Kericho benefits from a warm and temperate climate, making it good for agriculture, especially large scale tea ...
[2] [3] Its capital and largest town is Kericho. Kericho County is home to the largest Kenyan tea plantations. Some of the largest tea companies including Unilever Kenya, James Finlay and Williamson Tea are based here. It is also home to the popular Ketepa brand. The defunct Buret District is now part of Kericho County.
Tea plantation workers in Kenya's Kericho region. The Kenyan tea workers strike of 2007 was a strike action undertaken by members of the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union (KPAWU) against Unilever Tea Kenya Ltd (UTK) over a wage increase. It took place in the Kericho region of Kenya and involved an estimated 10,000 workers from ...
The tea industry [2] in Kenya is broken down broadly into policy, production, regulatory & research and trade & promotions. The main players are the Government of Kenya through the Ministry of Agriculture, Tea Board of Kenya, [3] Tea Research Foundation [4] Kenya Tea Development Agency (Holdings) Limited, [5] Kenya Tea Growers Association, Nyayo Tea Zone Development Corporation [6] and East ...
Ketepa is a brand of tea in Kenya. The name derives from Kenya Tea Packers. [2] Ketepa is the largest tea company in Kenya, it has been making tea since 1978, and has its headquarters in Kericho but the law allowing Ketepa to export was only passed in 1992. [3] One advertising campaign seeks to turn "tea time" into "Ketepa time." [4]
The colonial period saw the introduction of tea cultivation on a large scale in the Kericho and Nandi highlands. These regions have since played a significant role in establishing Kenya as the world's leading exporter of tea and also in establishing a tea-drinking culture among the Kalenjin. [52]
The constituencies have a tea industry, Kiptagich Tea Factory, which processes and packs tea grown in the plantations and also those sold to the factory by the local small scale farmers. The industry is owned by the former president, Daniel T. Moi and it provides employment directly and indirectly to more than 2,500 individuals.