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A stakeholder in the tea industry has called for caution in increasing monthly pay for green leaf delivered to factories to Sh20 from Sh15 as proposed by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Joshua Kanake, a director at Rukuriri tea factory in Embu County, warned that a substantial increase would trigger an agitation for better wages by tea pickers, eventually eating into the enhanced pay for farmers.
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