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Multinational tea firms go easy on mechanisation amid conservation bid

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Finlays Kenya has mechanized the process of tea harvesting to reduce the costs of production. [Courtesy]

Large tea firms say they have refrained from laying off their staff in their quest to mechanise.

Instead, they are having the machines replace workers leaving employment through natural attrition.

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