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Radical reform can restore coffee industry sanity

It is unfortunate that while demand for Kenya’s coffee is strong on the world market and prices are at an all-time high, the country is unable to supply quantities needed.

The once vibrant Kenya Planters Co-operative Union (KPCU), an umbrella body that used to offer a collective position of the coffee farmers, including purchasing fertilizer and chemicals on their behalf from the world market, is on its knees.

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