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Baringo farmers smell the coffee and return to tending to the crop

James Cheptoo at his coffee farm in Baringo North. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

Farmers in Baringo County had given up on coffee because it was no longer lucrative, and they had turned their plantations into grazing fields or uprooted the crop.

The venture to them was a waste of time and resources but little did they know coffee farming was the next big thing.

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