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A coffee farmer Duncan Kamau in Gituara area. (Photo: Joseph Muchiri/Standard)
More than 42,000 coffee farmers from 12 co-operative societies in the Mt Kenya region earned Sh630 million last month. The rich pickings came from 7.3 million kilos of cherry delivered, thanks to a new farming initiative.
This was the best pay-out in five years as a result of a sharp rise in the production of premium grade coffee, which increased by more than 75 per cent in the 2016-2017 production year after a training programme on coffee farming best practices.
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