Two UK tea manufacturers on Monday faced accusations of sexual abuse on tea plantations in Kenya, according to an undercover investigation by the BBC.
A worker picks tea at a plantation in Githunguri 30km from Kenya’s capital Nairobi, January 6, 2012. Kenya, the world’s biggest exporter of black tea, has lost a significant part of its tea production for this month due to severe frost in key growing areas, which could cut its foreign exchange earnings, a major industry group said.
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