Higher prices for Kenyan coffee expected

Coffee seeds. A worker sorts out coffee cherry at a factory yard in Central Kenya. Improved prices are expected to encourage farmers to increase production.

Kenya: Prices of Kenyan coffee in the global market are forecast to start a steady climb on growing demand for high quality beans, a leading exporter has projected.

"We have come to the end of the dull phase," said Dormans Coffee chairman, Jeremy Block, yesterday. He reckons that bean prices in the subsequent auctions are expected to rise.