Kenya Tea Farmers Receive Reduced Bonus

18 September 2013

Nairobi — Tea farmers in the country will this year receive an average bonus payment of Sh31.65 for a kilogram of green leaf they took to the factory, less than Sh37.51 paid out last year.

The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Managing Director Lerionka Tiampati attributed the drop in the second payment (bonus) to a two percent decrease in net auction price of a kilo tea to Sh272.08 from Sh278.08 in 2012.

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