Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya (left) with Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) board of directors vice chairman Wesley Koech at Kapkatet tea factory in Kericho County on September 24, 2021. Mr Munya announced that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) will be used to transport tea to Mombasa.
President Uhuru Kenyatta says rail transport reduces costs and boosts farmers’ incomes .
Produce will be transported from growing counties to Nairobi and loaded onto trains.
The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is setting up a facility next to the Nairobi Inland Container Depot to handle all the produce for onward transportation by Kenya Railways.
This is after the rail firm and the agency entered into a partnership that will see KTDA-run factories transport tea via the standard gauge railway to the Port of Mombasa for export. Tea reaching the Nairobi freight terminal from the producing counties will be loaded onto KR wagons, then transported to the Coast.
