Tea is an important crop in Uganda and has been grown since the beginning of the 20th Century. The importance of tea as crop is to generate income, create employment, link communities through infrastructural development, provide foreign exchange through export, protect the environment and has a high multiplier effect of the above
Tea growing in Uganda started in 1900. It was introduced by the British Government which imported tea seed from India through the Royal Botanical Gardens in England, and planted it at Entebbe Botanical Gardens. More introductions of tea from India and other South Asian countries were first gr...
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The tea sector is faced with many challenges which among others include:
-Inadequate supply of high yielding tea clones and quality plantlets for establishment of new plantations or restoration of the old tea trees
-Unaffordable and inaccessible agro-inputs such as fertilizers and h...
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When we talk of drinking tea in Uganda people think of black tea, as it is the commonly known and consumed tea in Uganda.
Divine Dimensions is looking forward to introduce the other varieties that are made out of the ordinary tea.
Tea is made from the dried and processed leaves...
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