The Mountain Journal Fate of the Tea Amendment Bill 2023 hangs in balance after Speaker Moses Wetangula declared its null and void after Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe during the proceedings failed to declare his interest. After he failed to declare his interest in the tea sector, he participated in the deliberations related to the…
The Mountain Journal The tea levy has negatively affected the industry with buyers abandoning teas from the east of Rift. The buyers seek the Tea Levy should be pegged on volumes of the produce, instead on the alue. The buyers have turned to the west of the rift and the neighbouring countries fearing cost imposed…
The Mountain Journal All the 170 public health facilities in Murang’a County have been connected with a speedy internet designed to transform the health sector. In the transformation programme, all the health centres and dispensaries located in the far locations have been connected through internet connectivity for the interest of promoting the health of the…
Photo/ Youth leaders affiliated to the Nyeri Hill Organic Herbs and Eco Fuel Enterprises (NOHEFE) in their farm. The Mountain Journal editor@themountainjournal.co.ke Coffee exports earned Kenya farmers Sh 2.37 from the direct sales that were dispatched to several destinations internationally. In the period between October and March in the coffee year 2025/2026 , AFA reports…
Kenya’s floriculture industry is demonstrating renewed resilience and global competitiveness despite mounting geopolitical, freight and sustainability pressures, as organizers announced a record-breaking edition of the upcoming International Floriculture Trade Expo (IFTEX) 2026. The 13th edition of IFTEX taking place between 2nd and 4th June will bring together 210 exhibitors — up from 189 last year…
The Donald Trump administration plans to send to Kenya U.S. citizens exposed to the Ebola virus rather than bring them home for observation and treatment, according to three people with knowledge of the plans. In past outbreaks, Americans exposed to the virus were sent home to be treated in state-of-the-art facilities. The Trump administration has…
The Mountain Journal The Murang’a traders who suffered destruction of their properties during last week’s fuel prices protest will share Sh 450,000 donated by the local County Government. Governor Irungu Kang’ata disbursed the kitty sourced from the Emergency Fund to the traders who had been registered to had faced the destruction of the properties on…
Photo? Pauline Wanjiru displaying the roasted coffee while in the group’s coffee farm in Nyeri. The Mountain Journal A youth group in Nyeri is reaping returns from coffee through the value addition initiatives with a kilogramme fetching Sh2,500. The 11 members affiliated to the Nyeri Hill Organic Herbs and Eco Fuel Enterprises (NOHEFE) reap profits…
The Mountain Journal Coffee cooperative societies in Murang’a are competing on production of quality coffee as a strategy to uplifting farmers living standard The management of Gatagua and Kahuhia farmers cooperative societies in the past three years have been working on strategies to uplift farmers’ social and economic status through increase of quality coffee. Speaking…
The Mountain Journal The tea factories in the east of the rift achieved low prices for the second week running, following the implementation of the tea levy 2026 of Sh 2.28 of a kilogramme of made tea at the auction. In the weekly auction, KTDA-managed factories in the East complained of reduced tea sales due…
