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Agriculture and livestock development CS, Mutahi Kagwe. [File Courtesy]
Anxiety has gripped the East of the Rift amid fears of a reduced tea bonus, following the impact of the tea levy imposed at the value of the auction at Sh2.28 (0.8 per cent) per kilo of made tea.
In the past three auctions, the volumes of tea traded from the factories in the Mt Kenya region have declined, with the directors of the tea factories noting that buyers have turned their attention to teas from the west of the Rift, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda as alternatives.
Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holdings’ leadership meets the Agriculture Committee on Tuesday for further deliberations on the challenges facing the tea industry, among them the tea levy and market diversions.
