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Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Tea industry players want the tea policy first drafted in 2014 fast tracked and put in place.<\/p>\n

Edward Mudibo, managing director East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) said the country cannot deal with such an important sector without a coherent guidelines.<\/p>\n

He noted that the first draft policy was done in 2013, and finalised in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that nothing much happened so key tea stakeholders engaged a consultant to relook at the initial draft of 2013\/2014 and fill up the gaps,” he said.<\/p>\n

This, he said was done and the draft validated by all the stakeholders noting that the next step is for the draft to be taken up by the policy division of the government.<\/p>\n

Mudibo spoke to the Star on the sidelines of the National Tea Multi-stakeholder meeting in Nairobi.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe areas that have been reviewed in the draft policy are broad-based and within the tea value chain<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Kenya<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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