Kenya Tea Trading Automation: Technology will help increase transparency
527 views · Published 21 January 2016 · 1:31 · Indexed 20 October 2026
Channel: CGTN Africa · 2016 · News & Politics
Kenya will this year automate trading at its weekly tea auction of regional produce to increase transparency in dealings. This is according to the East African Tea Traders Association which runs the market.East Africa's biggest economy hosts the world's biggest tea auction. It sells the produce from nine African nations, including from Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique. Ethiopia is due to join in March. Kenya, the world's top producer of black tea, earns about a billion dollars every year from exports. Complete automation of the auction would be completed in 2017 but the first phase would be in place this year. The tea association has 200 members drawn from growers, buyers, warehouse operators and brokers from regional African nations.
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