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Kenya: Global Glut Pushes Down Tea Prices
Capital FM, 18 January 2021
The volume of green leaf produced by smallholder tea farmers under Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) management dropped marginally by 0.7 percent to 615 million kgs during the… Read more »
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Kenya: Why Senators Have Last Chance to Rescue Tea Farmers From Cartels
Nation, 20 December 2020
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman and Philosopher. Read more »
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Kenya: Senate Rejects New Tea Rules
Nation, 13 November 2020
Tea growers will have to wait longer to benefit from government-initiated reforms after the Senate rejected new regulations. Read more »
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Kenya: MPs From Agriculture Regions Want BBI to Address Guarantee Minimum Return Fund
Capital FM, 10 November 2020
A section of Members of Parliament from agriculture regions now want assurance that the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) will provide for a minimum guarantee return fund for… Read more »
World Glut Not Quite Kenya's Cuppa Tea
In December 2020, Kenyan tea farmers saw a long-awaited Tea Bill passed by the national assembly, with the bill also seeing the revival of the Tea Board of Kenya that would help regulate the sector and market the tea to overseas markets, as well as the Tea Research Foundation. However as Covid-19 tightened its grip on the world, smallholder farmers under the Kenya Tea Development Agency have suffered a slight drop in production and earnings as a result of the high volumes of tea that continue to be delivered to auction from the region, in addition to the global oversupply of tea.
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The long-awaited Tea Bill has been passed by the national assembly. the bill will also see the revival of the Tea Board of Kenya which will help regulate the sector and market the tea to overseas markets, as well as the Tea Research Foundation. The bill, when finally approved, will require prompt payment of farmers, many of whom waited up to 2 years for full payment of their produce, in what has been called the "Bonus coming in October" writes John Kamau for Daily Nation.
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