Tea agency asks Mombasa County officials to waive Sh7,000 levy on tea ferrying trucks

Farmers load some bags of tea leaves into a truck. [File, Standard]

The Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) has urged the Mombasa County government to waive the Sh7,000 charged per truck ferrying tea to Mombasa. The levy and charges, it noted, were robbing tea farmers of their bonuses.

TBK Chief Executive Willy Mutai said that in every 21,000 kilos being ferried to Mombasa, farmers lose Sh0.5 of their bonus to Mombasa County.