The Senate Standing Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Tourism, wants the government to do away with undue paperwork in the exportation of tea.
Speaking to the media at the East Africa Tea Trade Area, Mombasa, the committee chairperson Issa Boy said that there was a lot of bureaucracy involved before the export of tea was done, thus hampering business.
He said this is something tea marketers have always complained about for causing unnecessary delays.
Boy called for removal of every setback involved in the business as a way of motivating famers, who have been citing low profits in the sector that were not matching the value of their work. "We want to sit down with the cabinet secretary for trade and deliberate on how we can reduce the so many restrictions placed when it comes to exporting tea.
