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Tea plucking machines leave women jobless

 

Workers use a tea plucking machine at a tea farm in Nandi Hills, Nandi County. A new reports say many women have lost their jobs since tea picking was mechanised in Kenya. [File, Standard]

About 30,000 women in South Rift have lost their jobs in multinational tea farms due to increased mechanisation of the production process, a new report has said.

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