Farmers steer clear of coffee loan fund amid sector issues

Miller has already received large amounts of coffee as farmers renew goodwill

Most them came from a little-known coffee cooperative society in Murang'a called Thanga-ini Cooperative Society.

This is the first time restructured agency has done marketing of produce.

Poor implementation of new regulations has seen farmers demand their suspension.

Co-operative societies want Agriculture CS to reveal criteria to be used to repay the loan.

Cherry Advance Fund was established two years ago by the government to help coffee farmers improve production

Cooperatives join hands to form Kiambu County Coffee Farmers Association for joint procurement, processing and marketing

The machine has capacity of pulping more than one tonne of coffee cherries per hour

Munya made the assurance when he met chairpersons of the coffee cooperatives under the Embu County Coffee Mill.

The governor called for speedy implementation of President Uhuru’s directives in coffee sector reforms which will see farmers benefit from Cherry fund

New mill built jointly by 24 cooperative societies is now operating and milled 722,000kg of coffee beans this year

The New Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU) has started disbursing coffee cherry advance revolving fund.