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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Environment
Rebecca Speare-Cole

Climate impacts hitting yields and already ‘scarce’ incomes, tea farmers warn

Gladys Maiywa, a tea farmer, on her farm in Chepchabas, in Bomet County (Anthony Odamo/Fairtrade/PA) -

Kenyan farmers who grow tea sold in UK supermarkets have warned that climate impacts are hitting yields and their already “scarce” incomes.

The East African nation, which supplies half of all the black tea consumed by Britain, has seen farmers facing unpredictable climate conditions, lower production and quality levels, and rising input costs in recent years.

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