Help the Kenyan Tea Farmer through Justea.com

Kenya is proudly the largest exporter of black tea, however, nearly 500,000 small scale tea farmers are trapped in a cycle of debt and poverty.

These farmers are forced to sell their raw tea leaves for low prices to central processing factories. The tea then goes through many hands until it ends in your cups. Of the price the consumer pay, only 1 percent of that money goes back to the farmer.

Two Kenyan farming ideas bag $7,500

Two farming ideas from Kenya have been awarded a grant of $7,500 (approx. Sh630,000) in the third edition of the Africa Rural Connect Contest.

KUZA Doctor by Backpack Farm’s founder Rachel Zedeck, was one of the innovative farming ideas which walked away with $5,000 (Sh420,000) for their farming mobile toolkit.