Government must fix relationship with tea farmers to improve its global profitability

It is disheartening that the recently paid tea bonus didn't excite farmers, as recently reported in the media, the reasons being they used most of it to repay monies borrowed for their pluckers' wages, purchase of farm inputs and family needs.

Little do they know that if the dollar exchange rate was at last year's levels, or fertiliser wasn't subsidised, they would have taken home much less.