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Tea pickers operate a tea picking machine at Nandi Hills in Nandi County. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard]
The mechanisation of the tea sector has dominated ongoing political campaigns with residents expecting the next government to regulate machine use.
Use of tea picking machines has been introduced gradually by multinational companies in the region since 2013 with an estimated over 10,000 job opportunities lost.
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