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President Kenyatta has also ordered elections of directors of the various factories to be conducted within the next 60 days and ordered the Cabinet Secretary for Interior Fred Matiang'i and CS for Agriculture Peter Munya to ensure the "full implementation" of the Executive Order.

Senior management and board members of the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) may be headed home as the government kicks off an investigation into the operations of the agency. President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday directed the Attorney General to conduct an inquiry into allegations of statutory and regulatory breaches committed by KTDA, one of the largest tea industry players in Kenya.Among the ills KTDA is accused of include price fixing and abusing its dominance and having a grip on more than 620,000 smallholders.The president also noted that the company may have in numerous instances acted contrary to Kenyan laws, including the Companies Act.

Scientists from Germany took an experiment conducted by the Japanese in 2016 as the basis of their research. Using a meta-analysis, Kazuki Ida, Hiroshi Yamada, and Yohei Kawasaki found that gargling with tea can have a high prophylactic effect on influenza infections.

Ensuring the safety of the product. Depending on the object to be packed, the primary container must protect it from the damaging effects of moisture and solar radiation, mechanical damage, contact with air and unwanted reagents.

primary packaging include a juice or milk bag, a perfume bottle, a medicine jar, a tube for cream or toothpaste, and so on.

Kericho County is located in the highlands west of the Kenyan Rift Valley with a population of 901,800 and an area of 2,11km2. The county is home to the Kipsigis sub-tribe of the Kalenjin tribe. Its climate has made the county the leading tea producing region in the country and home to the best Kenyan tea, which is renowned worldwide for its taste.

Smallholder tea farmers in Kericho County are set to benefit from a programme aimed at improving diets among tea farmers and their families.

Tea farmers affiliated to Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA) in the Mt Kenya region will get a payout of Sh21 per kilogramme of green leaf up from Sh16 that has been paid in the last three years.Already factories in the east of Rift Valley have informed their growers of the new amount following the government directive that they get 50 per cent of their earnings on a monthly basis.

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For the last seven years, KTDA Holdings has paid Sh3.8 billion dividends, all generated by the subsidiary companies.

The Government has effected new changes at the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) ahead of the planned reorganization of the sector. Anthony Muriithi who was the Acting Director General of the authority since October 2018 has been move to Rome, Italy to serve at the Kenyan Embassy.