About 1,000 tea farmers in Zombo District will have to wait longer to benefit from the Shs10 billion tea project.
Speaking to Monitor on Monday, Mr Richard Jakernga, a member of Zombo Tea Cooperative Society and farmer of Agawa Village in Abanga Parish, said his colleagues have abandoned it because they saw no future in the crop.
He said of 364 registered members, at least 300 have lost interest in maintaining their tea plantations, which are now covered by wild vegetables.
“The feasibility study on the tea factory was done in 2017 and this made communities offer their land for the factory. But since then no factories have been established. How can we be promised air,” he said.
And since the project has not taken off since 2015, some farmers uprooted the crop in anger in favour of short term crops.
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