The first thing that strikes you as you enter the Makomboki Tea Factory is the air. It's clear, absent of the dark smoke that billows from the boilers of Kenya's other tea factories. Of the 66 tea ...

As a girl growing up on a tea farm in the Aberdare Hills of Kenya’s central highlands, Nancy Githaiga would regularly wake up to the sight of elephants trampling through the neat, knee-high green ...

Tea farmers have a reason to smile after the government inject 3.5 billion Shillings to refurbish tea industries to meet the international standard and also enable them do value addition on tea for ...

Agnes Wangechi a worker at Chinga Tea Factory in Othaya ,Nyeri ,monitor the withering process which reduces the moisture content in the fresh green leaves On 7 December,2022. [Kibata Kihu, Standard] ...

NANDI HILLS, Kenya (Reuters) - A dispute between a British-owned tea plantation and a local community in western Kenya has come to the boil in what could be a sign of turbulent times ahead for tea ...

Birds fly as smoke rises following an explosion, after Israel and the US launched strikes on Iran, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran in Tehran, Iran on March 2, 2026. Talks between Kenya and Iran ...

NAIROBI, Dec 3 (Reuters) - The Kenya Tea Development Agency has signed a $55 million syndicated loan to build seven small hydro-dams to cut reliance on the national grid and trim factory costs, the ...