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A Tea farmer picking Tea at a farm in Kericho.PHOTO:[Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard] For the past three years, multinational tea firms operating in Nandi, Kericho, and Bomet counties have faced persistent land invasions and illegal tea harvesting by criminal gangs. The crisis has prompted the Kenya Tea Growers Association (KTGA), which represents large-scale tea producers (LSTPs), to raise alarm over the escalating threats to the tea industry. In a statement released on January 20, KTGA chairman Silas Njibwakale expressed deep concern over recent invasions at Eastern Produce Kenya’s (EPK) tea estate in Nandi County and an attempted raid by armed individuals at Browns Sambret estate in Kericho County. “In Nandi County, organised criminal gangs have occupied crucial estate zones, including the Sitoi airstrip, crippling operations and placing lives and property at substantial
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The High court dismissal of several petitions challenging the lifting of the ban on genetically modified organisms (GMO) has opened room for scientific exploration in the biotechnological studies. Scientists and Researchers in the field of biotechnology at various institutions of higher learning have expressed optimism that students undertaking related courses will now explore and fully exploit the potentials in science of genetically modified products. Prof Richard Oduor the Registrar of Research at the Kenyatta University and also chairs the Kenya University Biotechnology Consortium told a student’s leaders forum that the development had a major ramifications on stakeholders as it had fully opened the floodgates of research and innovations. “ At this point,our students in the university can go ahead and do the courses that are biotech in languages and in