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 ...

Samuel Ngugi, who owns Embassy Crystal, a leading Electronic shop within Kericho town, recalls days in the late 1990s when his sales could hit Sh500,000. He sells television sets, solar panels, ...

The north-eastern Indian state of Assam is renowned for its tea - the backbone of its economy. The traditions of the old estates, including hand-picking, make the tea expensive. But any drop in ...

want their local government to impose a ban on the use of Tea plucking machines in the multi-national Tea companies that has witnessed over outlaw the use of machines, said two multi-national ...