(Ecofin Agency) - In Kenya, tea export incomes are expected to reach KSh135 billion ($1.3 billion) in 2018, up by KSh6 billion compared to the results from the previous year, Reuters reports.  

According to Kenyan tea directorate, this performance should be spurred by an increase in export based on an assumption of production rebound in 2018 fostered by better weather condition.

Tea output should thus be estimated at 452, 000 tons in the actual season against 439, 850 tons (due to warm and dry weather in Q1), in 2017.

In the country, tea is the main export crop in foreign currency earnings. Pakistan, Egypt, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Russia were the major destinations of Kenyan tea, in 2017.

Espoir Olodo