TEA NEWS #Kenya Tea

Imenti growers say cartels deprive them of their hard-earned cash. In Summary • Munya was accompanied to the events by Imenti South MP Kathuri Murungi, Imenti Central MP Kirima Ngushine and East Africa Legislative Assembly MP Mpuru Aburi. • He said he will press on to ensure farmers get good prices of coffee, tea, milk, cotton, macadamia, bananas and other farm produce.

The wood fuel program is a project to ensure all tea factories have commercially and environmentally sustainable sources of firewood.

Summary · Stakeholders are worried that if the current demand by employees of multinationals to increase their wage by 30 per cent is implemented, it will spell doom to a sector that has been raking in billions of shillings annually. · At Sh185 per kilogramme of made tea, Kenya’s cost of production is amongst the highest in the world when compared with other growers of black crush tear and curl (CTC) tea such India where it takes Sh166 to process the same quantity and Sh123 in Malawi.