Tea-picking machines no threat to jobs, court rules

Farm workers use tea picking machines at a tea farm in Nandi Hills in Nandi County. [Kevin Tunoi/Standard]

Tea farms have been given room to breathe following a Court of Appeal decision that found no harm in tea-plucking machines.

A two-judge bench found that no redundancy of workers has been caused by the introduction of plucking and pruning machines in the farms.