Coffee farmers to access new fertiliser via mobile app

ETG County Director Lewis Giles (L) with the firm’s North Rift Marketing Manager Peter Tallam during a farmers’ field day in Moiben, Uasin Gishu County in October last year.

NAIROBI, KENYA: A local commodities firm has launched a new fertiliser variety specifically targeted at boosting coffee production in Kenya.

Export Trading Group Country Director Lewis Giles says the new coffee fertiliser variety, with “a lot of nutrients”, will help increase coffee yields in the country, thereby bettering the country’s foreign exchange earnings.