The Kenyan shilling remained steady on Tuesday, November 19, against the dollar after dipping for the first time in weeks ...

Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Andrew Karanja has established a 21-member taskforce to investigate ...

The Bill, which underwent the first reading in the House last week, hands 60 percent of the money that will be raised from ...

Tea has long been at the heartbeat of Kenya’s agriculture landscape. Visitors in Kenya are more likely to be welcomed by a steaming cup of tea as a gesture of hospitality found in homes and ...

Three years ago, Kenya — one of the world’s biggest tea producers — set a minimum price for the commodity to cushion farmers from losses in an oversupplied market. Now, it’s been forced to ...

The formation of the task force comes after Kindiki's pledge to tea farmers and is aimed at streamlining the tea sector.

Kenya's tea export earnings rose 18 percent in the first half of 2024 to hit 102.4 billion shillings (about 793.8 million U.S. dollars), boosted by increased shipments to major markets such as ...

Data from the Mombasa auction shows that of the 8.97 million kilogrammes of the old tea offered last Tuesday, only 923,910 kilos were sold, meaning 89.7 percent of the offering was rejected by buyers.

Farmers in Kenya's west of the Rift received the lowest bonus for the 2023/24 financial year as earnings were dented by unsold tea stockpiles at the Mombasa auction, industry data showed.