Regulator issues notice to license 11 tea dealersTea farmers at a meeting in Embu County. [File, Standard]A State agency plans to issue licences to 11 tea dealers, among them tea packers, to venture into tea marketing.The dealers include five private tea processors, based in the western Kenya, each with a capacity to handle five million kilogrammes of green leaf annually. In a Kenya Gazette notice, Mureithi has notified the public of the intention to issue licences to Bronze Tea Limited of Kericho for tea export. Read Now »Speaking in Murang’a, Mureithi said all qualified players in the tea sector must be licensed. Their factory board had announced it would pay them Sh10.5 per kilo, contrary to Kenya Tea Development Agency’s recommendation which capped a kilo at Sh5.

Source: Standard Digital May 03, 2020 21:00 UTC