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Governor Paul Chepkwony has appealed to the national government to set aside money to bail out small scale tea farmers. This comes weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta bailed out miraa farmers with Sh1 billion.
Speaking after meeting a delegation from KokChaik Sacco, the governor said over 300,000 tea farmers in Bomet and Kericho earn very little from the cash crop and were weighed down by several taxes and loans.
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