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State crackdowns on fraudulent tea weighing machines

Workers pick tea using a tea harvesting machine. [File, Standard]

Agriculture Principal Secretary Paul Ronoh has warned weighing clerks at tea-buying centres against tampering with weighing scales.

Speaking when he conducted a comprehensive inspection across tea buying centers in Kericho county, the PS said that farmers had incurred losses due to falsification of weighing machines at tea buying centers.

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