Farmers eye higher profits with easy to manage coffee variety

Coffee farmer Pauline Mwendwa tends to her crop. She is one of the 200 members of Thuura Organic Coffee Growers who planted their first crop less than three years ago. [Phares Mutembei, Standard]

Frustrated by dwindling fortunes in coffee farming, a group of farmers in Meru is changing tack.

More than 200 farmers are a happy lot after they embraced the production of anaerobic coffee, which according to new KPCU Acting Managing Director Timothy Mirugi, is performing well in the international market.