Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA)
Management agency for ~600,000 Kenyan smallholder tea farmers; world's largest producer of black tea by this structure.
agricultural · input
Plucked green tea leaf, processed into black/green tea. Grown in tropical highlands; Kenya is the largest black-tea exporter, with India, China and Sri Lanka the other majors. Smallholder-driven, weather-sensitive.
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Companies
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Goods affected
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Claims on record
What depends on it
1 essential American goods rely on raw tea leaf (camellia sinensis) somewhere upstream in their supply chain.
Who makes it
3 companies produce raw tea leaf (camellia sinensis).
Management agency for ~600,000 Kenyan smallholder tea farmers; world's largest producer of black tea by this structure.
World's largest tea company (Lipton/PG Tips/Brooke Bond), spun out of Unilever (CVC-owned) in 2022.
Owner of Tata Tea and Tetley; major global tea brand and sourcer.