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Nancy Nyawira a tea farmer from Tetu in Nyeri County read the kilograms of her tea produce at Mukarara Tea buying center on July 27 2015. [PHOTO: KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD].
Private and government-owned tea companies in Nandi County have been caught cheating farmers out of their hard-earned cash through use of fraudulent weighing machines.
The county’s Department of Trade, Investment and Industrialisation conducted an impromptu inspection and discovered the tea companies have been fleecing farmers through the use of ‘unjust’ weights and measures instruments every time they deliver their green tea leaves to the factory.
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