Tea Farming Enterprise Contribution to Smallholders’ Well Being In Kenya
Abstract
Po
verty reduction among smallholders has remained a major priority for the Kenyan government. Efforts have
been geared to have a streamlined agri
-business system like emulated by the
tea sub-sector. In the smallholder tea
sub-sector, farmers are organized to
private companies, ow
ns factories, engage in produce assembling,
processing, contract experts for profession services, have micro-financing institutions serving them, and procure
fertilizer from overseas in bulk to distribute it to
its members. While the success of the organization and
operations are visible the impact of the enterprise returns are unknown. The paper discusses the tea farming
enterprise contribution to the well being of the smallhol
ders’ tea farmers in central and western highlands of
Kenya
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Citation
AAAE Conference Proceed ings (2007) 307-313Publisher
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies