Earnings from tea exports to India surged by nearly three quarters in the first half of 2025, overtaking industrial carbonates, or soda ash, to become the country’s top export to Asia’s third-largest economy.
India bought tea valued Sh1.97 billion between January and June 2025, data collated by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows, a 73.4 percent jump over Sh1.14 billion in the same period of 2024.
