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Mt Kenya tea factories yet to recruit managing agents

Tea processing at Chinga Tea Factory in Othaya, Nyeri. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

With barely days left for the tea processing factories to comply with the registration of the new management agents' agreement contracts, only firms in the West of the Rift have concluded the process.

The smallholder-run factories have until May 2, to appoint management agents with conditions to pay the seconded staff ending the current scenario where the farmers incur those costs.

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