Team proposes radical reforms to cushion tea farmers from price shocks

A Tea plantation farm in Kericho County. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Directors of smallholder tea factories have been given a sneak preview of how the government may steer the sub-sector in the next few years.

The directors, who concluded a week-long induction workshop last month in Mombasa, were taken through recommendations of the tea price stabilisation committee appointed by Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya.