The Mountain Journal Transportation of 47,900 metric tonnes of fertilisers has started with the first 16 wagons left Mombasa They arrived in Nairobi on Monday ready for the distribution to the 880,000 tea growers in the counties. KTDA Holding Chairman Enos Njeru said the 16 wagons loaded with fertilizer arrived in Nairobi, with offloading and…
The Mountain Journal Kirinyaga based Mununga tea factory registered the highest achieved tea price at the auction market last week with a kilogramme trading at Sh471.90. In the weekly auction, the best performing factories were Imenti(Sh466.70),Kiegoi Sh462.80, Kagwe Sh453.70. Others that achieved the highest price at the Mombasa auction were RukiririSh452.20,Kionyo Sh 444.60, Makomboki Sh…
Brazil has asked the European Union not to implement regulations in its deforestation law at the end of the year as scheduled and asked for it to be revised to avoid hurting Brazilian exports. In a letter to the European Commission seen by Reuters, the Brazilian government said the law banning the import of products…
The Mountain Journal A consignment of 47,400 metric tonnes of NPK fertilizer for smallholder tea farmers under KTDA factories docked in Mombasa Port on Friday. The consignment is part of the order placed by the agency of 97,000 metric tonnes meant to support the production of quality green leaf to satisfy the local and international…
BY DPCS Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has asked Coffee Cooperative Societies to publish and make known details of their financial costs and deductions to their members. This comes amid heightened efforts to entrench efficient financial management practices in the cooperative movement through legal, regulatory and policy reforms, alongside the coffee subsector. At the same time,…
The Mountain Journal Tea stakeholders have started working on a process that will facilitate the separation of accounts of satellites from the parent factories. A high-profile meeting attended by KTDA Group Chief Executive Officer Wilson Muthaura, Agriculture Principal Secretary Dr Paul Rono, and representatives from the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) drew a road map…
The Mountain Journal Seventeen coffee buyers participated in the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) where they purchased 9,714 bags of the commodity at Sh370.9 million. The weekly auction gave less amount as compared to the previous week of Sh455 million after the sale of 11,944 bags of coffee that were bought by 17 local and international…
The Mountain Journal On the spot are the private tea factories blamed on buying low quality green leaf from farmers and middlemen, with the Tea Board of Kenya (TBK) directed to revoke their licenses of the culprits. The controversy surrounding the quality of green leaf was a debate at the centre during the tea directors…
The Mountain Journal The Government must protect the interests of the 800,000 tea growers that need the factory directors to ensure fairness in the operations. Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua has emphasized that the government has a key interest in the sector calling on the directors to ensure the cost of production was brought down to…
The Mountain Journal A high profile KTDA meeting to induct the newly elected factory directors was disrupted after a heated argument after two factions differed on how to reconstitute the KTDA Management Services (MS) and do away with the indpendent directors. In a heated debate in Mombasa, those demanding to do away with the directors…
