Exports Board Moves to Improve Tea Quality
Over 1,200 tea farmers have been trained in harvesting standards, a move tailored at improving quality and ensuring the crop fetches high premiums on the regional and international markets.
“Rwandan tea, especially the liquor type, is always the best at the Mombasa auction. However, traders always complain that they find foreign materials in the tea. With the skills gained, we hope the problem will cease,†said Francis Twagirayezu, the National Agriculture Export Development Board (NAEB) representative in Mombasa.
Small scale farmers to elect tea factory directors
NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 7 – Thousands of small -scale tea farmers across the country who are affiliated to Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) will go to the polls on Tuesday to elect directors for their factory companies.
About 190,000 farmers out of a total of 560,000 who are the shareholders will elect two directors from each of the 54 factory companies, making a total of 108 seats being contested.
Kenya to increase US flower exports
Kenyan flower farmers are moving to exploit a huge market potential by increasing their flower exports to the United States.
According to Kenya Flower Council chief executive officer Jane Ngige, Kenyan flower farmers are seeking ways to increase their exports to the US which have remained significantly low in the last two years.
Pepsi switches on Nairobi soft drinks production plant
Global soft drinks giant PepsiCo has started local production of its brands, raising the competition bar for Coca- Cola, which has dominated the Kenyan market for decades.
The company has been relying on imported drinks after making a re-entry into the Kenyan market in 2010 following an exit in the 1970s.
