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…
The Mountain Journal Seventeen coffee buyers injected Sh455 million after they bought 11,944 bags of the commodity. In the auction, the buyers purchased bags of coffee sourced from the cooperative societies and estate farmers reflected more as compared to the earnings of the previous week of Sh374 million. Gitare and Gichuka factories produce, marketed by…
The Mountain Journal Two KTDA directors yet to be confirmed two months after they were elected have moved to court seeking orders they be involved in the management of Kiru Tea Factory in Murang’a. The aggrieved directors, Eston Gakungu Gikoreh and Martin Ngatia Munga have moved to court under certificate of urgency arguing that on…
The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holding has urged farmers to pick the best green leaf as it sets minimum quality standards in all tea processing factories. KTDA Chairman Enos Njeru says this will ensure the competitiveness of Kenya’s products in the global market and that ensures it remains the product of choice. The move…
By Francis Kamande a coffee auction expert Farmers across the coffee belt are seeking the registration of new players to provide Direct Settlement System (DSS) to satisfy the expanding coffee sector in Kenya. With the increased clamour for recruitment of a second player as an alternative to the Cooperative Bank of Kenya, the farmers say…
Tea growers have criticized emerging divisions in the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) Holding leadership. This is happening as the farmers rallied stakeholders to help them venture into new markets for the produce. The farmers’ representatives from the West of Rift and East of the Rift led by Timothy Tanui and Moses Njuguna said it…
Fifteen coffee buyers bought 9,618 bags of coffee at Sh374.6 million at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE). In the weekly auction market, Ndundu Factory in Kiambu achieved the highest price of Sh48,375 for each of the 35 bags of quality coffee sold by Alliance Berries Limited. Kiganjo factory allied also to the Alliance Berries Limited…
The Mountain Journal KTDA Chairman Enos Njeru was re-elected for the second term owing to the impressive performance of the tea industry in the last three years. The board re-elected Njeru while Eric Chepkwony was elected his deputy to serve for the three year term period. Njeru said he was dedicated to taking the sector…
