Tea production in Uganda may climb to a record on rising yields, according to the country’s tea association.
Output may reach 62 million kilograms (62,000 metric tons), bettering the previous high of approximately 61 million kilograms in 2013, George William Ssekitoleko, executive secretary of the Kampala-based association, said Wednesday by phone. Last year’s output may match 2013’s, as a forecast for almost 57 million kilograms issued on 19 January is “partial,” he said.
“Yields will be boosted because we have had new plantings over the years,” he said.
The East African country has more than 31,000 hectares (76,600 acres) under the crop, Ssekitoleko said. Uganda, Africa’s third-biggest grower after Kenya and Malawi, exports at least 95 per cent of its output, according to the association.
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