The lavish private auctions for Darjeeling tea involve elaborate tasting sessions. Around 2.8 million kg of Darjeeling tea is sold annually, with the finest teas fetching astronomical prices from ...

Tea farmers pluck tea at their family farm in Kavurokori Village, Manyatta Constituency in Embu County on November 9, 2023. [Murithi Mugo, Standard] Tanzania has introduced its inaugural online ...

Between 2013 and 2014 tea prices at the Mombasa tea auction tumbled by more than 25 per cent from Sh293.40 ($3.26) in 2013 to Sh218.70 ($2.43) in 2014. The price drop was attributed to oversupply ...

Boil the kettle, fill the pot, and raise a celebratory cup. Sri Lanka’s renowned tea industry has just dodged a potentially devastating COVID-19 shutdown by swapping a 19th-century way of buying and ...

Automating the auction would cost $1.3 million, Munyi said, adding it would be funded by Trade Mark East Africa, an organisation that supports trade in the region.