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Export to Kenya’s two major markets of Pakistan and Egypt dropped by five per cent to each of the destinations.

Summary • The agency has also moved to calm fears that farmers will not get their bonuses this year, saying that the decision has not been made. • KTDA has already started informing farmers at the grassroots to prepare for a bad year as part of its stakeholder management.

Summary • The reforms in the tea industry are meant to protect small-scale farmers from exploitation, he added. • The government accuses KTDA directors of protecting cartels and not having the interest of farmers at heart. • Farmers have been calling for an audit of the agency to establish its financial status. • Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya has promised an audit of tea factories and measures to save the sector from collapse.

Part of farmers drawn from 10 tea factories within Murang’a on Thursday alleged that KTDA planned to deduct Ksh 3 per kilo to service its loans.

e price decreased from Ksh240.75 (USD2.25) per kg recorded the same period in 2019 production year.

For several years, tea farmers have been complaining of dwindling earnings from their cash crops with some of them opting to sell their tea to private Tea factories.

Small scale tea farmers in Bomet re-admitted to KTDA factory