KIGOMA, Oct. 13 -- THE Director General of the Tanzania Tea Board, Beatrice Banzi, has emphasised the importance of honouring agreements between investors and smallholder farmers, adding value to tea products and adopting clean energy in production to protect the environment and improve the quality of Tanzanian tea.

Banzi made the remarks during a meeting with the Executive Director of the Tanzania Tea Growers Association, Jones Sikira, and representatives of Udongo Company, who presented findings from a soil health study conducted by the Tanzania Tea Research Institute (TRIT) on tea farms in Lushoto and Muheza districts.

She also noted that the Herkulu and Marvella tea factories, formerly owned by Bombay Burma Trading Corporation, are ...