Farmers call for Tea Act review to tame cartels

Workers pick tea on a farm. [File, Standard]

Tea farmers have called for a review of the Tea Act to address the challenges in the sector, which they claim have been engineered by cartels.

Addressing members of the National Assembly Committee on Agriculture and Livestock during a public hearing, the farmers from the West Rift tea growing region attributed the recent poor payment of bonuses to cartel manipulation at the Mombasa auction.