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Kirinyaga farmers want to take over coffee mill

A farmer tends to his unripe coffee berries. [File, Standard]

Coffee growers in Kirinyaga are seeking to use the Sh200 million mill at Kiaga market that has been lying idle since its installation five years ago.

The farmers, who said they are able to produce more than six million kilogrammes of cherry annually, wondered why they should continue to transport their crop for milling outside the county when the facility remained idle.

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