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Nandi residents want firms to scale down tea picking machines

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Workers using tea picking machines at a farm in Nandi Hills, Nandi County. [File, Standard]

Nandi County residents want multinational tea companies to scale down the mechanisation of tea picking to reduce job losses among the youth.

They raised concern over the devastating economic impact of the introduction of tea-picking machines and malpractices in recruitment by some firms.

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