A tea farmer on his way to deliver green tea leaves at a buying centre in Mathira, Nyeri County. Small-scale farmers have welcomed proposed regulatory remedies by the government to protect them from middlemen. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]
Still smarting from radical government proposals that could weaken its stranglehold of the smallholder tea sub-sector, the Kenya Tea Development Agency has let go of centralised company secretarial services for its factories.