The latest price is below the minimum value of $2.43 (Sh281) that the government set last year to safeguard farmers' earnings after a series of poor prices.
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The East African Tea Trade Association (EATTA) recently launched the Sh214 million iTTS programme funded by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA).