{
  "id": 871447,
  "title": "Kenyan tea factories to begin rejecting poor quality leaves",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/kenyan-tea-factories-to-begin-rejecting-poor-quality-leaves",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-14T12:12:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KBC",
    "slug": "kbc",
    "url": "https://www.kbc.co.ke/kenyan-tea-factories-to-begin-rejecting-poor-quality-leaves/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Agriculture and Livestock Development Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe has directed tea factories to reject substandard tea delivered by farmers across the country. He warned that when poor-quality leaf from a few farmers is mixed and processed together with good-quality leaf delivered by compliant farmers, the entire factory’s tea is downgraded and everybody receives a lower […] The post Kenyan…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}