Seven tea factories in the county have won a major fight for the control of a Sh25 million road fund from the abolished ad varolem levy. In a meeting with factory chairmen from the region, the county ...

• Kenya Tea Development Agency went to court seeking to stop the election set to take place on April 21 this year. • Kenya Union of Small Tea growers secretary general Mugambi Nkanata said they will ...

Poor prices of orthodox tea are to blame for the cuts in this year's second payout to farmers, the management of Miciimikuru tea factory in Meru County has said. On Friday, farmers affiliated to the ...

•They spoke during a tour by a parliamentary committee to collect views about the regulations in three factories in meru county. They visited Kionyo, Kinoro and Imenti tea factories.

When Henry Paul Njeru started growing purple tea on his Athi Estate farm in Kirunguria, Igembe South in Meru, little did he know that he would make a fortune out of it. Known to have higher medicinal ...

The tea pickers have come back from the fields and they are all crying,” says Festus Mugambi Mimuga. Looking out from his farm in the lowlands of Mount Kenya, around 2,000m up, you’d be forgiven for ...

Tea farmers in Meru County have opposed the introduction of plucking machines, saying the gadgets will affect the quality of green leaf and lead to reduced earnings. A section of small scale farmers ...

Tea farmers in Meru County want the proposal to increase their monthly pay on green leaf deliveries shelved until charges for pickers are regulated. The famers fear that if the monthly payment is ...