Kenya Coffee earnings up 10pc to reach Sh8.5b

NAIROBI: Earnings by coffee farmers for the first half of the 2014/15 crop year increased by 10.3 per cent to Sh8.5 billion compared to Sh7.7 billion registered the same period in 2013/14 year.

Data from the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) indicates that starting October 1, 2014 to the end of March this year, farmers sold 328,401 bags of clean coffee worth Sh8.5 billion ($93.2 million).