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Tea sector reforms meant to grow money, says AFA
A tea auctioneer takes buyers through the markets at East African Tea Trade Association auction in 2018.
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What you need to know:
- Eatta’s petition challenges the implementation schedule Mr Peter Munya, the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, has published.
- But “the government was determined to end for the benefit of tea farmers and stakeholders in the tea sub-sector,” AFA states.
The Agriculture and Food Authority says tea sector reforms were envisaged to make the industry competitive regionally and globally through reduction of production costs and increased efficiency.
In its cross petition against a case the East African Tea Trade Association (Eatta) has filed at the High Court in Mombasa, AFA says that prior to the current changes, the sector had many laws that made it uncompetitive and bureaucratic.
