Tea farmers lobby for high farm gate prices

Stakeholders in the tea sector will on Thursday, meet the Ministry of Agriculture to negotiate the possible increase of farm gate prices. Tea farm gate price is what farmers are paid for every kilogram of green leaf tea that they supply to the factories. “We have been in discussions with the farmers and other stakeholders about increasing the prices and we have sent the deliberations over to the Minister for the final decision,” Anthony Butera, the Director General of Ocir-Thé told Business Times yesterday.