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Article: All the tea of Kenya.
- Article from:
- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
- Author:
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Kericho: The rich green sea of tea spreads dazzlingly to the horizon, in some places a vista of more than 30 miles. Extent and vividness, as if nothing else in the world existed except tea, gives a sense of timelessness to these estates that makes one forget that they are of fairly recent creation, recent in the time scheme of Kenya which knows the earliest traces of human habitation. Tea came to the Kericho district only in the earher part of this century but with impressive impact. To this day the region is at the heart of Kenya's great tea producing activity and industry. Here, too, is Kenya Tea Packers Ltd., better known as Ketepa, whose sprawling packing plant is the ...
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