“James Finlay, Unilever, George Williamson, Sotik tea and other multinational tea companies in South Rift region have now deployed bigger tea plucking machines. Going by this rate, 2,000 additional tea pluckers will soon be rendered jobless,” said Momanyi. Sang appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to ensure the government places a limit on the percentage of tea plantations the multinational tea firms can harvest mechanically. “The government must put in place a piece of legislation and policies to regulate the mechanisation of tea plucking. They “mix” manual labour with tea plucking machines.

Source: Standard Digital July 26, 2021 06:11 UTC