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Sasini sheds 2,000 jobs in five years on mechanisation

Silas Njibwakale, the Managing Director of Kipkebe Ltd, a subsidiary of Sasini demonstrates how tea is plucked at one of the company's tea estates. [File, Standard]

Agricultural firm Sasini has shed 2,182 jobs in the last five years on the back of mechanisation of its tea harvesting process, which has eliminated tea pickers.

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