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Luponde
Luponde is a town and ward in Njombe Urban District in the Njombe Region of the Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and ...n Southern Highlands. The biggest employer is the Luponde tea factory. In 2016 the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics report there were 9,675 people in the ward, from 9,372 in 2012. References Wards of Njombe Region {{Njombe-geo-stub ...
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Luponde Tea Estate
The Luponde Tea Estate is located in the Livingstone Mountains The Kipengere Range, also known as the Livingstone Mountains, lies entirely in Njombe Region in southwest Tanzania at the northern end of Lake Nyasa. Near Lake Nyasa they are known as the Kinga Mountains. It is a plateau-like ridge of mountains r ..., at an altitude of 7,000 feet in Southern Tanzania. It was founded in 1954 and today covers 2,212 hectares. Tea is grown on 730 hectares of land, including 20 hectares of herbal plants and 401 hectares of organic tea plantation. Today the estate produces an average of over two million kilograms of bag grade black tea per year and is one of the only steady sources of income for local residents who are capable of picking up to 80 kilograms of wet tea leaf per day. History The vast majority of the worlds tea (with the exception of China) was originality planted by Dutch and British colonists, Tanzania is the only country in which tea was first planted by Germans. German ...
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