Hope for farmers as new KPCU gets down to business

A coffee farmer at her farm in Kithoka village, Meru County. Farmers from the region want the State to issue them with licences to mill their coffee. [Darlington Manyara, Standard]

The New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (NKPCU) is starting operations with Sh7 billion assets and a State funded Sh3 billion cherry advance kitty after completion of the liquidation of its predecessor.

The NKPCU will be the custodian of buildings and parcels of land that were under control of the defunct Kenya Planters Cooperative Union (KPCU) that went under 12 years ago owing millions of shillings to coffee farmers and local banks.