Creating extra sources of income – Milk Plant
Many small-scale farmers at Geoffrey’s tea Factory won’t earn enough from their tea bushes to live off – especially during a challenging year with a bad harvest, like farmers have experienced lately. ‘The majority of our farmers own around 500 bushes and the income from this
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Making it easier for farmers to sell their tea
One project Fairtrade decided to fund was improving tea buying centres – the buildings where farmers go to sell their green tea leaf to the factory. Geoffrey a farmer at Rukuriri tea Factory who sells his tea at Kimuri Buying Centre explains that the buying centres
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