KTDA (@KTDATea ) Managed Factory Re-Admits Over 2000 Small Scale Farmers in Bomet
The farmers claimed that the move was motivated by the fact the KTDA offered better returns to small-scale farmers as compared to the multinationals.
According to @KTDATea region 5 manager, Mr. Charles Manegene, KTDA provides better returns and service to smallholder tea farmers as well as other important requirements like cheaper fertilizer and extension services which has encouraged farmers who had left to come back.
While speaking to the press, Mr Charles Manegene said that Despite coronavirus affecting business including the tea sector, as @KTDATea they will maintain better services to farmers as compared to other companies.
He also added that KTDA has risen above it's competitors for better prices and the incentives provided to farmers among other benefits.
These benefits have gone a long way in increasing @KTDATea ownership which is over 600,000 smallholder tea farmers across 16 tea growing counties in Kenya.
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I worked for 12yrs in @KTDATea between 1995 and 2007. I joined when KTDA was a parastatal under the Min. Of Agriculture.
Come the year 2000, KTDA was privatised. This was after concerted effort by farmer representatives.
A background of this privatisation is necessary because it informs a lot on the current raucous engagement playing out in the public space.
KTDA was set up in 1964, by taking over the functions of Special Crops Development Authority (SCDA)...
which had been set up before independence to encourage cash crop farming amongst African farmers after political independence seemed inevitable. When the uptake of the envisaged cash crops failed or was slow, tea growing was spreading so fast,...
Update-While appearing before the Committee on Delegated Legislation on matters regarding the Crops (Tea) Regulations yesterday, representatives of smallholder tea farmers submitted that @KTDATea is owned by farmers across the country through 54 tea factory companies... 1/2
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Here is something about the 100M stimulus package for artistes;
Why The Package?
Covid-19 pandemic has exposed all of us to economic hardships affecting provision of basic needs. It has also had psychological effects especially with the lockdowns and curfew.
Kenya had over 100,000 artists and therefore there had to be an effective model of using the funds. With this scenario the ministry adopted Work For Pay model.
This means the amount will be used to motivate artists to produce content aimed at promoting Covid-19 Creative Community Education. That way the amount will be paid against the content created and published.