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Despite Kenya continuing to post increase in its output of black tea, the overall global production till October this year , the period for which official data is available, is trailing behind last year essentially because of a sharp fall in India’s production.

The Indian Tea Board has rejected a proposal to allow imports of tea at a lower customs duty after the production dropped due to the coronavirus outbreak and auction prices increased sharply earlier this year.

Agriculture has given the tea sector a month to get ready to start selling all local produce at the Mombasa auction as it starts implementing the Tea Act, 2020.

NAIROBI, KENYA: Government has kicked off public participation on the draft tea regulations, 2021 and draft tea board regulations 2021 under the tea act 2020.

For tea, agriculture experts and stakeholders have in the past questioned why the government used an arms-length approach.

The prices at the weekly tea auction have been on a downward trend in the last couple of sales in what has been attributed to low demand of the commodity in the world market resulting from disruptions caused by Covid-19.

South Indian Tea Market Report Week: 50

GOOD DEMAND

The AG wants to have KTDA, its agent and the officers punished by being committed to jail for six months for allegedly ignoring a court order temporarily stopping nominations and elections for tea factory directors.

While KTDA had been included as an interested party in the EATTA case which stopped the implementation of the regulations gazetted by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya, EATTA had, in a strange twist, withdrawn its petition against KTDA – meaning that KTDA would not be party to any orders issued by the High Court.

GOOD DEMAND AT MOSTLY STEADY TO EASIER RATES