Agriculture CS Peter Munya (PHOTO: Wilberforce Okwiri)It has been a busy year for Kenya’s tea sector, marked by the push for radical reforms. This has prompted interventions from the government with Uhuru pledging to ensure that tea farmers return to good earnings and have control of their crop. It also seeks the uprooting of cartels and middlemen who have profiteered from the toil of tea farmers by controlling how Kenya’s tea gets to the market. Other major amendments introduced by the National Assembly that were not in Cheruiyot’s original Bill included the tea levy and tea fund. Also to come under government regulation will be the Mombasa Tea Auction with brokers, buyers and the auction organisers — the East African Tea Trade Association — subject to new rules.

Source: Standard Digital December 29, 2020 07:18 UTC