How Unilever loses millions to tea leaf thievesIt is 5 am and a group of tea pluckers put aside their cups of tea, pick up sacks and dash to pluck tea at Unilever tea company plantation in Kapsaos in the company’s Kapkorech division/Kimugu operation unit. The issue of green leaf theft is mostly aggravated by mushrooming of tea companies without tea plantations and an increase in tea buying centres. The green leaf tea thieves are also egged on through incitement by politicians that the land belonged to their forefathers and will be reverted to them. Whereas Unilever Tea Company has suffered the brunt of the thefts, James Finlay tea company director of corporate affairs Sammy Kirui said they were not adversely affected by the green leaf theft menace. Sharing of names of notorious green leaf theft suspects with the chiefs and police,” said Sunday.

Source: Standard Digital February 05, 2019 08:08 UTC