Burundi sees tea output rising 2.4 pct in 2016

Burundi tea output, the African nation’s second-biggest foreign exchange earner after coffee, is expected to rise 2.4 percent in 2016 due to increasing use of fertilisers and expanding areas under production, a tea board official said on Thursday. The state–run tea board (OTB) said production of dry tea would reach 11,211 tonnes up from 10,952 tonnes in 2015. The tea industry has survived months of political violence that has killed more than 400 deaths and pushed 250,000 people into