Thursday, October 11, 2012

Voice of America: Trouble Brewing for Ugandan Tea Farmers

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Trouble Brewing for Ugandan Tea Farmers
Oct 11th 2012, 16:05

Tea drinkers around the world brew up tea bags marked "Kenya," but most of them don't know some of it actually comes from Uganda.  One of the country's most important drivers of revenue, Uganda's tea industry has long been dogged by quality problems, and a further tightening of regulatory standards could spell disaster for the roughly 65,000 Ugandans who manufacture the country's third-largest export, which generates $100 million per year.  But outside Uganda, no one ...

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