Good news for farmers as Danish firm exports first batch of processed coffee

A sample of coffee berries at Kiamabara Village in Nyeri County on December 17 2015.Kenyan coffee farmers are set to benefit from a coffee roasting factory that will soon be put up in Nairobi by a Darnish firm. Kenya has called for the removal of subsidies on coffee trade during the 10TH World Trade Organisation in Nairobi. PHOTO:KIBATA KIHU/STANDARD.

A Danish firm has exported the first batch of locally processed coffee, raising farmers’ earnings more than three-fold.

Africa Coffee Roasters (ACR), set up by Denmark’s largest retail chain, produced 300 kilogrammes of the shelf-ready commodity on Friday.