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Agency mulls lab to enhance coffee pricing at the auction

Nairobi Coffee Exchange acting CEO Lisper Ndung'u and Board Chairman Peter Gikonyo speaking on the implementation and achievement of the Coffee reforms agenda. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) plans to put up a coffee cupping laboratory to streamline the pricing of the commodity.

Cupping is the measurement of physical and organoleptic characteristics of coffee, which allows the evaluation of the attributes, qualities and defects of the grain.

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