Tea has emerged as Kenya's most important cash crop after a decades-long competition with coffee; its primacy has largely been the result of improved production by small farmers. ... Since the African peoples were not allowed to engage in cash crop farming, to pay this tax they had perforce to seek wage employment. ... Africans were gradually allowed to grow cash crops such as coffee and tea, although to a limited extent. ...

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