Last week’s visit to Kiambu County by the Agriculture Cabinet Secretary (CS), Peter Munya cannot be taken for granted by Coffee farmers in the region. They are optimistic that the Government will certainly revive the coffee industry. At its peak, Kenyan Planters Coffee Union (KPCU) sold 120,000 bags of coffee in the 1980s and the […]
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Coffee farmers in Murang’a want the regulations guiding issuance of cherry revolving fund to be established by mid-year. The farmers said the fund will help revamp the sector which has been performing poorly and further curtail hawking of coffee. Giving their views during a public participation session on the coffee cherry revolving fund which the […]
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Coffee was the chief cash crop in the Mt. Kenya region way back in the 1980s and beyond. Most elites from the region can associate their education with proceeds from the crop and cooperative societies managed to purchase huge tracks of land in the ‘white highlands’ which they sub-divided to their members. The crop was […]
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