Workers use a tea plucking machine at a tea farm in Nandi Hills, Nandi County. A new reports say many women have lost their jobs since tea picking was mechanised in Kenya. [File, Standard] About ...

Before artificial intelligence started threatening “thinking” jobs, mechanisation had threatened and eliminated many manual jobs. Surprisingly, one such job is picking grapes. Imagine picking coffee ...

FILE - A woman picks tea leaves in Chepsonoi, Nandi county, in western Kenya on Aug. 13, 2022. A multinational tea company based in Kenya has suspended operations in May 2023 after tea plucking and ...

KERICHO, Kenya — Kenyan tea pickers are destroying machines brought in to replace them during violent protests that highlight the challenge faced by workers as more agribusiness companies rely on ...

India, Sept. 3 -- In the misty highlands of Nuwara Eliya, where generations of estate workers have bent over tea bushes from dawn to dusk, a quiet revolution is taking root. A single machine, placed ...

Jorhat (Assam), Jul 8 (PTI) A tea expert from Japan has recommended mechanised plucking of tea leaves for more productivity, reduce cost of production and resolve the problem of labour shortage.

Workers down tools over tea plucking machines Strikers a fraction of Kenya's tea workers Some tea output affected NAIROBI, Oct 18 (Reuters) - About 80,000 workers in Kenya's tea farms went on strike ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A multinational tea company based in Kenya has suspended operations after tea plucking and harvesting machines were burned by protesters citing massive job losses because of ...