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Coffee farmers risk losing cash over auction licence row

Tussle: At the centre of the case are 23 tonnes of berries. [File, Standard]

More than 700,000 farmers may lose out in a battle between their union and the Government over a coffee auction permit.

In 2016, former Agriculture Cabinet secretary Willy Bett published a notice in the Kenya Gazette that enacted the Coffee (general) Regulations Act, 2016, which opened the coffee trade market to traders without provision of a licence.

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