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No party for tea farmers for third year

A tea farmer at his farm at Ndumanu Village in Mathira, Nyeri County on October 24, 2017. Farmers say their factory directors and KTDA are clueless and cannot steer the sector to profitability. [File]

Over 700,000 smallholder tea farmers are staring at a third year of dipping second payments as the subsector reels from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic that depressed key export markets.

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