Task force to resolve row pitting KTDA directors

The ministry has set up a task force to help resolve some of the cases that were filed by the former directors and the former management of Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and smallholder tea factories. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Council of Governors have formed a task force to resolve the raging row between former directors of smallholder tea factories and their successors who were elected last year.

Agriculture CS Mithika Linturi said while the government had outlawed attempts by the former directors to take over the management of KTDA Holdings and the smallholder tea factories, it recognised that multiple legal cases had slowed down reforms in the subsector.