Zero rate VAT on tea, packaging machinery
COMMENTARY
From an economic angle, it is better to be a buyer than a packer. Yet, it is the packer who will create jobs and increase foreign exchange earnings.

By Peter Kimanga | 2 months ago

Put cash in our pockets, tea farmers cry
Tea farmers want the new sub-sector regulations to reign in middlemen and increase their earnings.
Macharia Kamau | 11 months ago
High global tea prices lift farmer earnings to record Sh84 billion
Small-scale tea farmers are set to earn more after revenue for the year 2015-2016 rose by a third on higher production and stable Kenyan shilling.
Lee Mwiti | 4 years ago
Tea farmers in Kenya to earn more in 2015-16 bonus payments
Over 250,000 small-scale tea farmers in Mt Kenya region will in the next few days receive their bonuses.
NDERITU GICHURE AND MUNENE KAMAU | 4 years ago
Tea traders at the Mombasa auction told the Standa...

By Moses Michira | Aug 17, 2016
Unilever Tea Company has been stopped from firing ...

By Nikko Tanui | Aug 05, 2016
The tea sector in Kenya has in the recent past fac...

By The Standard | Jul 25, 2016
Multi-national tea companies in the South Rift hav...

By Nikko Tanui and Gilbert Kimutai | Jul 23, 2016
Tea prices have dropped to a 10-month low, compoun...

By Paul Wafula | Jul 10, 2016
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) will import 74...

By Nderitu Gichure | Jul 06, 2016
Kenyan tea farming is being weighed down by rising...

By Reuters | Jun 29, 2016
Gatunguru Tea Factory has up to next week (June 30...

By Mwaniki Munuhe | Jun 26, 2016
The amount will be backdated to January 2014, the ...

By Luke Anami | Jun 21, 2016
There is also growing concern that the crop may fa...

By Lucas Ng'asike | May 19, 2016
"They are suffering under the weight of taxes and ...

By Nikko Tanui | May 11, 2016
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