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Tea farmers waiting to sell their produce to Nyankoba Tea Factory. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]
It is a windfall for Nyankoba Tea Factory farmers after it declared a record high bonus of Sh616 million to growers.
Outgoing Kenya Tea Development Agency board member, Dr Thadeus Mangenya, who is among hundreds of KTDA directors who congregated in Naivasha to declare returns for their respective factories said Nyankoba's 22,000 growers will be paid Sh40 bonus per kg of green tea sold to the factory, an increase of Sh5, from the Sh35 that they were paid last year.
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