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Boniface Gikandi

Kenya, Murang’a

Journalist at The Standard (Kenya)

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  • Gov't urged to offer girls free sanitary pads

    1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Boniface Gikandi

    Pupils in Kitutu Chache North, Kisii County, display sanitary pads they received from a donor as they marked World Menstrual hygiene week. [File, Standard)Stakeholders in Murang'a have challenged the government to come up with measures that will ensure girls from poor backgrounds to attend classes daily.

  • KTDA tea factories earn over Sh1 billion at Mombasa auction

    1 week ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Boniface Gikandi

    Tea farmers deliver their teal leaves to a lorry at Nyambaria tea buying center in Nyamira County. (Sammy Omingo, Standard)Tea factories affiliated with KTDA sold 5,418,918 kilogrammes last week, earning Sh1,137,972,780 at the Mombasa Tea Auction. The auction, held on 19th and 20th May, saw the following earnings from various tea factories: Mununga earned Sh26,747,490, Kimunye Sh19,767,600, Kathangariri Sh10,384,416, Kiegoi Sh21,260,800, Gathuthi Sh9,849,216, and Rukuriri Sh22,572,870.

  • Two coffee societies in Laikipia earn Sh4.3 million in sales

    3 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Boniface Gikandi

    A coffee farmer John Gikonyo in a meeting convened by local governor Joshua Irungu at Oljabet market in Laikipia County on May 15, 2025. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]The decision to introduce coffee farming in some of the bandit-prone areas in Laikipia has started to bear fruit. Data obtained from the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) indicated that parts of Marmanet, Ng'arua, and Nyahururu produced 103 bags weighing 6,346 kgs that fetched Sh4.3 million at the auction.

  • State suspends Rainforest Alliance audits in tea sector

    3 weeks ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Boniface Gikandi

    Alice Waheto goes a bout her business at Iriaini Tea Factory in Othaya, Nyeri County on September 6,2016. Billions of shillings will be paid out to smallholder tea farmers as bonuses this year,while some have protested against poor payment of their produce and boycotted tea picking. [Kibatia Kihu/Standard]Rainforest Alliance audits and certifications have been suspended in all tea factories.

  • Stakeholders seek to make Kenyan tea top brand in the global market

    1 month ago | standardmedia.co.ke | Boniface Gikandi

    French envoy to Kenya Arnaud Suquet, Murang'a Governor Irungu Kang'ata and Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi at Nduti tea factory in Kandara, Murang'a, May 6, 2025. [Boniface Gikandi, Standard]Key stakeholders have shown interest in Kenya’s tea, with focus on utilisation of the Geographical Indications (GI), which will facilitate branding of the produce from Murang’a.

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