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Traders defy duty-free sugar import quota, raising prices

Traders breached the limit the Treasury set on duty-free sugar imports and shipped in 25.4 percent above the quota by the end of last November, subjecting the consumers to costly sweetener.
According to the Sugar Directorate, traders imported 263,988 in the review period, exceeding 210,530, which is the limit that the Treasury set for sugar coming in from Common Markets for Eastern and...

Tea, coffee record mixed fortunes

Kenya’s tea and coffee exports recorded mixed fortunes in 2021 due to oscillating prices and demand in the international market.
It was a good year for coffee, whose price remained high throughout the season on the back of a decline in supply—caused by frost in leading producer Brazil.
The price was quoted at an average of over $320 for a 50 kilogramme bag throughout 2021, the best performance...

Indians seek cap on cheap Kenyan tea imports amid glut

By Brian Ngugi

Indian tea producers and exporters want their government to limit shipments of low priced Kenyan tea into the Asian country to stem glut that has hit farmers.
The Kolkata based Indian Tea Association (ITA) whose members represent over 60 percent of India’s total tea production Monday urged the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration to introduce a...