Other steps have included initiating of a new tea research centre in Mufindi District, in-corporation of tea outgrowers through their cooperative societies into the management committees of the tea factories, construction of more workers houses in the tea estates and improving the tea plucking rates of emoluments and other incentives to the tea pluckers such as provision of consumables. Ultimately, the authority has set up a price stabilisation fund to make sure the farmer does not lose in case of decline in world market tea prices. At national level, a national tea programme has been prepared by the Government with the primary objective of increasing made tea production in the country. There are three distinct production processes in the production of tea. Tobacco for example, changes into cigarettes and cotton changes into textiles and later into garments.
Tea remains tea throughout from when it is green leaf in the field to the time it is drunk in a cup.
This makes it difficult for people outside the industry to differentiate the different stages it goes through. Blending and packing or secondary processing. All these three stages are fairly complex and require extreme care at each stage. The Authority therefore started operating with bank overdraft and also subsidy from the Government. Because of inadequate subsidy from the Government and continuos operating losses due to over rising prices of inputs and suppressed world tea market prices, the accumulated losses stood at Shs.