A Tea farmer picking Tea at a farm in Kericho.PHOTO:[Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]
For the past three years, multinational tea firms operating in Nandi, Kericho, and Bomet counties have faced persistent land invasions and illegal tea harvesting by criminal gangs.
The crisis has prompted the Kenya Tea Growers Association (KTGA), which represents large-scale tea producers (LSTPs), to raise alarm over the escalating...