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Panic, joy as KTDA introduces tea picking machines

A woman picking tea.

There is widespread panic among tea pickers in Meru after the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) conducted several meetings at the tea buying centres to introduce new picking machines.

Manual tea pickers have expressed uncertainty in their jobs saying that they may be condemned to absolute poverty because tea picking is all they do for a living.

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