Tea

Tea

Hedin Nuts Limited provides high quality Kenya tea to the local and export market. We source the raw fresh Kenya tea from family growers in Kenya. Kenya is the one producer of tea in Africa. It ranks as the fourth biggest producing nation after Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India and China. There are two kinds of farming areas: large-scale and smallholder. The latter constitutes over 600,000 family growers with over 1 acre of land and it is the mainstay of the sector. The Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) oversees about 60 to 62 percent of the sector, nearly all constituting smallholder farmers.

We source tea from diverse parts of the country, mainly Central and Rift Valley regions. Our Central suppliers farm their crop in Murang’a, Nyeri, Thika, Kirinyaga and Kiambu. Our Eastern province family growers come from the windward side of Mount Kenya especially Meru and Embu. In Western Kenya, we source from Nyamira and Nyambene. Some of our biggest sources include Kericho and Bomet in the heart of the Rift Valley. We only source from family sources who prune their fields each 36 months as this rejuvenates new growth with added flavor.

We harvest Kenya tea through specially trained farmhands who have made tea-picking an art. They examine each bright green leaf, at the apex of each plant, which they pick in threes. This leaves the other parts to renew tea buds in the next harvest, usually 10 days later.