KEY MESSAGES
- Description: The Kenya Tea Development Agency organizes the collection, transformation and export of 60% of the domestic tea production, collected with half a million producers who are shareholders and receive training and financial services
- Specificity: Producers are shareholders of the agency and train each other
- Impact: Income four times higher than in neighboring countries
FUNCTIONING
SUPPORT TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF TEA PRODUCERS:
Training to good practices
> Development of Farm eld schools, where farmers learn to cultivate their tea
Production of tea of better quality
> And application of Rainforest Alliance's environmental criteria
Sales beyond market price
> 15 to 20% premium on sales thanks to superior quality
Offering of protection services
> Micro-credit with low interest rates, various insurances, etc.
SCOPE
KENYA
500 000 producers in 2015
BUDGET
$ 600 M of export sales
($ 180 M of structure expenses,
$ 420 M paid back to the producers)
IMPACTS
Agricultural productivity
Up to 36% increase of harvests thanks to better agricultural practices
Climate change
Use of wood coming at 50% from forests sustainably managed in KTDA heaters
Sustainable dev. goals
Income four times higher than for producers in neighboring countries (2010)
NEXT STEPS
Will to extend Rainforest Alliance's certification to all plants and producers
