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Kericho leaders up in arms over plucking machines

Ainamoi MP Sylvanus Maritim

Two MPs have opposed a decision by tea firms to reduce payment for tea pluckers from Sh5 to Sh2 per kilo of harvested tea.

Ainamoi MP Sylvanus Maritim and Nelson Koech (Belgut) spoke as a workers' union urged more county assemblies in tea-growing regions to impose levies on tea companies to control mechanised tea harvesting.

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