Mt Kenya tea companies to reappoint managers

Worker sorting tea leaves at Chinga Tea Factory in Othaya, Nyeri, on December 7, 2022. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) has extended the deadline it had set to enable tea factories in the Mount Kenya region to recruit management agents.

The board wrote to the 39 tea factories in the east of the bloc informing their chairpersons that the recruitment of the management agents has been extended from May 2, 2023, to May 16.