Kenyan Tea Growers Send Workers Home After Drought Cuts Harvest in Half
- Growers send half of workers home or assign non-core duties
- Reduced output of leaves could increase prices at auction
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Kenyan tea growers sent half of their workers on leave or assigned them non-core duties due to a prolonged drought that’s halved production at leaf-processing factories.
Prices of the commodity could climb amid a looming shortage in the world’s biggest exporter of the black leaves variety, according to traders.