THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF SAMBRET ESTATE

Abstract

After The second world war agricultural production of many crops and of tea in particular expanded rapidly in east Africa increased the yields due to more efficient agronomic practice led to higher returns and a consequent demand for more land suitable for tea planting particularly in those areas experiencing the high rainfall required for optimum tea production. Large tracts of these areas are preserved as gazette forests to conserve and regulate water supplies and by the mid-1950s there was opposition in Kenya to any further expansion of tea plantations because of the risk to water supplies if forests excision were allowed to continue.