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The tea sector has been highly charged in the past few months, with farmers up in arms over low bonus payments received this year.
They say they could have been shortchanged. However, the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), a company owned by about 600,000 small-scale farmers, says the low payment is due to low market prices of tea blamed on oversupply in the international market.
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