Kenya is a coffee growing country, exporting one of the best quality Arabica produce to the world with the sector contributing to the livelihoods of over 700,000 smallholder growers, according to the Coffee Directorate. However, until recently, consumption of the drink was low, with data from t...
NAIROBI, March 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenya has put in place measures aimed at increasing annual coffee production from 40,000 metric tons to 48,000 metric tons, a government official has revealed. Kiplimo Melli, interim head of the Coffee Directorate, said farmers have started putting more land unde...
Kenya exports up to 50,000 tonnes of avocados a year, with the country trailing only South Africa in the continent. The Chinese market is also opening up after Kenya and China signed a deal in 2019. The East African nation not only exports Hass avocados to the Asian nation but also mango...
Kenya’s coffee cartels stealing to order Over 30,000 kilos of coffee has been stolen in Kenya in 2016, with thousands of farmers affected by this growing wave of thefts according to Kenya’s Coffee Directorate. Not only costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses, the increase threat...
In Kenya, the Coffee Directorate registered the certification trademark "Coffee Kenya, So Rich So Kenyan" and acts as public body in charge of managing the coffee sector. Although both countries conceived different approaches, there is a common strategic line, which consists in attempting to secure...
Coffee Directorate, the industry’s regulator had to intervene by asking the management to validate the partnership describing it as legitimate. “Direct sales is where the money is and this is the future of the coffee industry in Kenya,” chairman of the Coffee Sector Implementation Committee (...
Directorate and the Coffee Directorate. Tea, horticulture, and coffee are Kenya’s main agricultural exports. Tea and coffee are, however, unique as they are predominantly grown by small-scale farmers. This necessitates the formation of farmer organizations to benefit from economies of scale and ...
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