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Tea factories seek to sell idle land bought to grow trees for firewood

A worker at Chinga Tea Factory in Othaya, Nyeri feeds some piece of woods into the boiler. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Almost a dozen smallholder tea factories are seeking to dispose off parcels of land acquired in the last one decade to produce wood fuel to power boilers.

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