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Kenya: Farmers Oppose Move to Challenge Tea Bill
Nation, 2 February 2021
A section of tea farmers in Nyeri have opposed a move to challenge the proposed Tea Bill in a petition that is aimed at preventing the implementation of reforms that seek to… Read more »
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Kenya: Tea Pickers Lose Battle to Machines
Nation, 1 February 2021
A worker's union has lost a 10-year fight to prevent multinational Unilever from using tea plucking machines. Read more »
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Kenya: Tea Prices Drop By 13% While Production Continues to Soar
Capital FM, 23 February 2021
Average tea prices for factories managed by Kenya Tea Development Agency have dropped by 13.3 percent to USD2.22 in the last seven months ending January 2021, as continued high… Read more »
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Kenya: Limuru Tea Issues Profit Warning
Nation, 18 February 2021
Agricultural firm Limuru Tea expects its net profit for 2020 to decline by at least 25 per cent, citing challenges heightened by the pandemic. Read more »
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Kenya: Job Losses Loom in Tea Industry As Workers Compete With Machines
VOA, 18 March 2021
A group of women pick tea leaves at a plantation in Kenya's tea belt in the Rift Valley, where harvesting has traditionally been done by hand. Read more »
Job Losses Loom in Kenya's Tea Industry as Machines Take Over
Kenya's tea industry is the world's third-largest after China and India. It is reportedly facing job losses after a court ruled against a labour union's attempt to ban tea leaf harvesting machines. Workers fear the machines will take their jobs, while tea farm owners say mechanisation will make the industry more productive. Multinationals in the tea belt have argued that harvesting machines will help cut production costs by more than half, making their product more competitive on the world market. However, trade unionists have said that mechanisation has a high human cost, with some 10,000 people already laid off even before the court verdict in favour of the tea companies.
InFocus
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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 ... Read more »
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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 ... Read more »
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Kenya will next month send its third tea trade mission to Iran in the last four years as it seeks to retain the Tehran market despite mounting challenges resulting from U.S. ... Read more »
