Nairobi, Dec. 16 -- Four Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) managed factories in the South Rift Region will be split into autonomous entities within the next six months, in a strategy aimed at improving efficiency.

The shareholders of Kapkoros Plc, a factory that has four factories under its wings - Kapkoros, Motigo, Olenguruoneand Tirgaga - in Bomet and Nakuru counties, on Monday voted for the split.

This means that each of the factories will independently process and market its tea.

The shareholders also adopted a recently concluded boundary delineation exercise, which realigns the catchment areas of the factories.

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Mr Robert Kipngeno Rono, the Kapkoros Plc c...