Mitengo ya tiyi pamisika ku Mombasa, Kenya idakwera pang'ono sabata yatha chifukwa cha kufunikira kwakukulu m'misika yayikulu yotumiza kunja, komanso kuyendetsa kudyamakina opangira tiyi, pamene dola yaku America idakulirakulira motsutsana ndi shilling yaku Kenya, yomwe idatsika mpaka shilling 120 sabata yatha yotsika kwambiri poyerekeza ndi $1.

Deta yochokera ku East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) inasonyeza kuti mtengo wapakati pa kilogalamu ya tiyi sabata yatha unali $2.26 (Sh271.54), kuchoka pa $2.22 (Sh266.73) sabata yatha.Mitengo yogulitsira tiyi yaku Kenya yakhala yoposa $2 kuyambira chiyambi cha chaka, poyerekeza ndi avareji ya $1.8 (shillings 216.27) chaka chatha.Edward Mudibo, yemwe ndi mkulu wa bungwe la East African Tea Trade Association, anati: “Kufuna kwa tiyi pa msika ndikwabwino kwambiri.”Zomwe zikuchitika pamsika zikuwonetsa kuti kufunikira kumakhalabe kolimba ngakhale boma la Pakistani likuyitanitsa posachedwa kuti achepetse kumwa tiyi ndi zaketiyi seti ndi boma la Pakistani kuti lichepetse ndalama zogulira kunja.

Chapakati pa mwezi wa June, Ahsan Iqbal, nduna yowona za mapulani, chitukuko ndi ntchito zapadera ku Pakistan, adapempha anthu a mdzikolo kuti achepetse kumwa tiyi komwe amamwa kuti chuma cha dziko lino chiziyenda bwino.Pakistan ndi imodzi mwa mayiko ogulitsa tiyi akuluakulu padziko lonse lapansi, ndipo tiyi imagulitsidwa kunja kwa $ 600 miliyoni mu 2021. Tiyi akadali mbewu yaikulu ku Kenya.Mu 2021, tiyi wotumizidwa kunja ku Kenya adzakhala Sh130.9 biliyoni, zomwe zikuwerengera pafupifupi 19.6% yazinthu zonse zomwe zimatumizidwa kunja, komanso ndalama zachiwiri zazikuluzikulu zomwe zimatumizidwa kunja pambuyo pogulitsa kunja kwa Kenya kwa zinthu zamaluwa ndimakapu tiyi pa Sh165.7 biliyoni.Bungwe la Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) Economic Survey 2022 likusonyeza kuti ndalamazi ndi zochuluka kuposa chiwerengero cha 2020 cha Sh130.3 biliyoni.Zopeza zogulitsa kunja zikadali zokwera ngakhale kutsika kwa malonda kunja kuchokera ku matani 5.76 miliyoni mu 2020 mpaka matani 5.57 miliyoni mu 2021 chifukwa chochepa.