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Mununga Tea Factory staff in Ndia Constituency, Kirinyaga County, Tuesday, witnessed a rare incidence after the Factory Manager was thrown out of his staff quarters by new directors.Things turned sour when the Manager in question, Franklin Kinoti, failed to attend the first boardroom meeting organized by the new factory directors that had brought onboard factory staff members and other stakeholders.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS), Peter Munya, Attorney General, Paul Kihara and the National Assembly were the respondents in the case filed by Dr.Barchok on behalf of the County Government.

While worldwide demand for tea grows, tea producing countries face challenges due to their susceptibility to climate change. In early May, the vulnerability of Kenya – one of the top four black tea exporters of the world – to climate change made headlines. Unusual rainfall patterns and rising temperatures resulted in floods, droughts, plagues and locusts could harm tea farming in the country.

The Official who is also the Ndima Tea Factory Chairman said following the ongoing reforms in the sector and having been declared the zone five Director to the KTDA, he had all it what it takes to replace Kanyago.

• There is a likelihood of flooding in low-lying areas and flood plains especially over the Western parts of Kenya where occasional rainfall is expected. • Counties in the Coastal region are likely to experience below-average rainfall.

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Detectives raided the Mombasa tea auction in search of dealings with the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) that is under probe for price manipulation, insider trading and wastefulness, the government has revealed.

• Despite this drop in price, KTDA prices over the same period have been 17 per cent per cent higher than the average Mombasa auction price for all teas. • The average price dropped from USD2.52 for a similar nine-month period in the previous financial year while tea production dropped by 8.6 per cent.

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.