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Kenya rushes to meet EU's guidelines on coffee farming

Farmers sort out coffee berries. [File, Standard]

With the clock ticking towards the December 31 deadline, Kenyan authorities are scrambling to digitally map the country’s coffee farms in compliance with the new European Union Deforestation Regulations (EUDR) rules.

The high-stakes effort aims to demonstrate to the European Union that Kenya’s prized coffee beans exported to its member states are not grown on land designated as forests, a requirement that could determine whether Kenya’s coffee continues being exported to one of its most lucrative export markets or not.

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