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Relief and hope for tea farmers as Senate passes the Tea Bill 2020 Shares The Senate has successfully passed the Tea Bill, giving fresh hope to tea farmers in the country. The bill provides for radical policy and structural reforms to the tea sector, assuring farmers of better returns. The policy will see the elimination of cartels and middlemen, hence getting rid of old and tired leadership at Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and factories. It will further ensure that these agencies and focus on marketing and value addition. The Kenya Tea Sector Lobby applauded the Senate for the commitm...

Win for tea farmers as Senate passes prompt payments Bill Wednesday December 23 2020 By GERALD ANDAE Summary This will be a departure from the current system where growers get a fraction of their money every month with the bulk of it made at the end of the financial year as second payment, normally referred to as bonus. Stakeholders have expressed mixed feelings over the Senate’s move, which is expected to have far-reaching reforms. Whereas tea farmers through some of their lobbies have lauded the move, traders and processors such as the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) have faulted the ...

THE STANDARD By PSCU | December 23rd 2020 at 17:51:54 GMT +0300 President Uhuru Kenyatta. President Uhuru Kenyatta today at State House, Nairobi, signed into law the Tax Laws (Amendment) Bill 2020 which was passed yesterday by Members of the National Assembly.  Also signed into law is the Tea Bill of 2018 which contains several reforms among them the re-engineering of the Tea Board of Kenya to oversee the development, promotion and regulation of Kenya's tea sector. The bills were presented to the President for signature by Solicitor General Ken Ogeto at the brief ceremony attended by Agri...

Central Kenya is playing Baba, he will cry forever after neglecting his people By Kennedy Ondieki via fb JAKOM REMEMBER, WE ALSO NEED FOOD This is where we sometimes many get annoyed with you, H.E Raila Odinga and this begs the biggest question; where is our fish, cotton and sugarcane taken care of. You hold talks with Kukuyu eminent people to protect their Tea through legislation, you have created a Stabilization Fund for their crops and you have added them more Constituencies through BBI simply in the idea that they can an d hopefully will hand State Power over to you.

FARMKENYA INITIATIVE News By Wainaina Wambu | December 22nd 2020 at 12:00:00 GMT +0300 A farmer John Tanui uses a motor-driven tea leaf picker at his farm in Nandi County. The law will tighten the management of tea factories owned by smallholder farmers. [Titus Too, Standard] The country’s tea sector is headed for a major overhaul after senators passed the radical Tea Bill. If signed into law, the Bill, a brainchild of Kericho Senator Aaron Cheruiyot, will clip the powers of the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and revive the Kenya Tea Board. Tea is Kenya’s third-largest foreign exc...