{The maximum price of Kenya’s top-grade tea rose to $3.82 per kg at auction on Tuesday from $3.51 last week, Africa Tea Brokers said.}<\/p>\n
Best Broken Pekoe Ones (BP1s) TEABP1-BEST-KE fetched $2.21-3.82 per kg, compared with $2.20-3.51 last week, ATB said in its market report.<\/p>\n
Kenya is the world’s leading exporter of black tea and the crop is a leading foreign exchange earner for the economy, alongside horticulture and tourism.<\/p>\n
Best Brighter Pekoe Fanning Ones (PF1s) TEAPF1-BEST-KE sold at $2.42-2.78 per kg, up from $2.34-2.70 last week.<\/p>\n
Most of the tea offered at the weekly Mombasa auction is from Kenya, but tea from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and other regional producers is also sold.<\/p>\n
ATB said buyers from Pakistan, Egypt, the United Kingdom and Kazakhstan bought more tea than last week.<\/p>\n
Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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