mzeiya
Elder Lister
Well, not for your kaplot somewhere but counties want multinational tea companies to pay Sh10,000 per acre, up from the current Sh100 they have been paying since 1926! Methinks, they should also pay up the accrued inflation value that wamekanyagia for that long.
This might be a great move to improve the counties' coffers but I'm not sure if that will mean less profits to the big kahunas and ultimately affect workers' wages though..
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Nandi, Bomet and Kericho to raise land rates 100 times for tea firms
Workers at a tea estate in Kericho. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Counties from the tea growing regions in the Rift Valley want multinational tea companies to pay Sh10,000 land rates per acre, up from the current Sh100 they have been paying since 1926.
The counties of Nandi, Bomet and Kericho are pushing to have the companies pay more, citing the changing economic times and the profits made by the firms.
This could set the counties for yet another standoff with the tea growers and county assemblies, which opposed the governors’ bid to increase the rates in 2019.
“Counties are demanding that the multinational tea companies which generate billions of shillings in revenue should start paying Sh10,000 per acre and not the measly Sh100 which they have been paying since 1926,” said Nandi County agriculture executive member Kiplimo Lagat said.
Addressing farmers in Nandi Central sub county yesterday, Dr Lagat accused tea companies of exploiting counties by paying low land rates. The tea companies in Kericho County cover more than 500,000 acres of land —about 300,000 acres in Nandi and more than 150,000 acres in Bomet.
In the budget last month, Nandi indicated the multinationals had agreed to pay Sh400 million, but had not said the rate per acre.
“The standoff between the multinational tea companies and the county government has been solved and companies have agreed to start paying land rates which they had declined to pay for the past three years,” Nandi Finance executive Alfred Lagat told the assembly when he presented the budget.
This might be a great move to improve the counties' coffers but I'm not sure if that will mean less profits to the big kahunas and ultimately affect workers' wages though..
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Nandi, Bomet and Kericho to raise land rates 100 times for tea firms
Workers at a tea estate in Kericho. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Counties from the tea growing regions in the Rift Valley want multinational tea companies to pay Sh10,000 land rates per acre, up from the current Sh100 they have been paying since 1926.
The counties of Nandi, Bomet and Kericho are pushing to have the companies pay more, citing the changing economic times and the profits made by the firms.
This could set the counties for yet another standoff with the tea growers and county assemblies, which opposed the governors’ bid to increase the rates in 2019.
“Counties are demanding that the multinational tea companies which generate billions of shillings in revenue should start paying Sh10,000 per acre and not the measly Sh100 which they have been paying since 1926,” said Nandi County agriculture executive member Kiplimo Lagat said.
Addressing farmers in Nandi Central sub county yesterday, Dr Lagat accused tea companies of exploiting counties by paying low land rates. The tea companies in Kericho County cover more than 500,000 acres of land —about 300,000 acres in Nandi and more than 150,000 acres in Bomet.
In the budget last month, Nandi indicated the multinationals had agreed to pay Sh400 million, but had not said the rate per acre.
“The standoff between the multinational tea companies and the county government has been solved and companies have agreed to start paying land rates which they had declined to pay for the past three years,” Nandi Finance executive Alfred Lagat told the assembly when he presented the budget.
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