A fresh row has erupted between tea multinationals and a workers’ union over the introduction of tea plucking machines, which could cost more than 50,000 workers their jobs. The Kenya Plantation and ...

Workers pluck tea using a machine. One multi national tea company sent home 10,000 tea pickers last year. Photo/FILE Nearly 3,000 children have dropped out of primary schools in tea estates in Nandi ...

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The decision by tea labourers affiliated to the Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union (KPAWU) to protest against the ongoing mechanisation of tea production is misplaced. Since the twin ...

The tea plucking machines debate that has raging for some time now can only best be conducted away from political emotions and accusations. A lot of these arguments have been around loss of jobs and ...

Two tea plucking machines are expected to be imported from Japanese Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd in order to cover up the shortage of estate workers, Plantations Ministry Secretary J A Ranjith said.