Coffee, tea farmers in East Africa face tough year as yields decline
Farmers pick fresh tea leaves at a plantation in Kericho, Kenya. Depressed rains across the East African region are expected to affect tea and coffee production. PHOTO | FILE |
Coffee and tea farmers across East Africa face a bleak future, amid a biting drought that is expected to take its toll of the cash crops and reverse the gains from 2016.
Growers say the drought induced by the La Niña weather phenomenon leading into the last quarter of last year delayed the flowering of coffee bushes.
