date:Oct 15, 2012
this country, and most of our people have resorted to using machines like pluckers instead of manual plucking, he says. If you are using a machine, it does not select which ones to pluck and which ones to leave. So that is affecting us. I think now every factory is doing that.
As a result, Ugandan teas fetch two-thirds the price of Kenyan teas at regional auctions in Mombasa - bad business for Ugandan farmers who pay to transport their harvests to Kenyan markets.
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