Tea
Tea
The tea industry is one of the prominent enterprises in Kenya’s agricultural sector, contributing an average of 40% of the total agricultural crop output by value over the period 2012-2016.
Over this period, the industry posted a 16% growth in value output from KES100 bn in 2012 to KES117 bn by 2016.
The tea industry is Kenya’s top foreign exchange earner, which in 2016 recorded an export value of KES124.5billion, accounting for 48% of total agricultural crop exports value in that year, thus leading all other prominent crops such as coffee, horticulture, and various industrial crops.
