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Glut and price decline undercut price of premium Kenyan coffee

A farmer Gichira Komu tends to his unripe bare coffee berries after the leafs fell off following a prolonged cold spell leading .The crop will not ripen in the absence of the green leafs leading to heavy losses. [PHOTO;Munene Kamau/Standard]

Kenya sold coffee worth Sh14.5 billion at the auction this year, which was lower than the Sh15.9 billion realised last year.

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