date:Oct 15, 2012
tea-producing countries.
If this happens, he says, it would be a disaster for Ugandan tea, since 25 to 35 percent of it wouldn't meet export quality, cutting off access to the international buyers on whom the Uganda's tea producers depends.
An attitude problem
At a factory near Lugazi, in central Uganda, the Uganda Tea Corporation processes more than one million kilos of tea leaves per year, employing 700 people.
The company's lush green fields are filled with the sound of snipping, as work