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Shunning Kenya Tea Development Agency won’t help small tea farmers

Kenya needs a unity of purpose to reach the development goals set out in Vision 2030. The country cannot afford to have strikes or work boycotts in the agricultural sector, the key driver of its economy. Small-scale farmers are just as critical to the tea industry as the multi-nationals.

The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) can explain why in the last financial year, total earnings actually increased, but the factory rates per kilo of green leaf fell marginally.

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