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Growers keep cool despite heat in brew

Tea farmers continue to record a decline in second payment (bonus) earnings from the country’s leading cash crop.

According to a section of farmers who spoke to Smart Harvest in Nandi Hills, a region that predominantly produces tea, the crop was lucrative over the past ten to 15 years and if the government does not intervene, prices will continue to drop drastically.

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