FARMKENYA INITIATIVE Interior CS Fred Matiang'i at his Nairobi office on April 8, 2021. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] Tea farmers across the country have been crying over poor prices while other tea farmers world over smile all the way to the bank. For some time now, there have been wrangles ailing the management of the smallholder factories and the Kenya Tea Development Authority (KTDA). This comes as the government ordered the election of new officials, which has been conducted in some regions and is ongoing in other areas of the country. It is in this regard that a consultative meeting was held between Cabinet Secretaries for Interior and Agriculture, the Tea Board of Kenya, and newly elected directors from smallholder tea factories in the east of the Rift Valley.