Varsity to hold symposium on tea sector
Central
By
Standard Reporter
| Jun 11, 2014
Kiambu,Kenya: Karatina University has called for abstracts, papers and exhibitions for a four-day international conference on the tea industry planned for September.
The conference is set to be held at a time when a glut of the commodity in the market saw some of the sharpest price declines in recent years.
The Kenya Tea Development Agency Limited, which manages over 60 tea factories for almost a million farmers in the country, had to cancel the interim second payment (mini bonus) to farmers usually issued at the end of April.
The university that was set up on an expansive former tea demonstration farm on the edge of Mt Kenya Forest prides itself as having a tea-training curricula as one of her flagship programmes.
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