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Policy failures and inadequate technical capacity hurting Kenya’s coffee industry
A woman tends her coffee plant in Nyeri. Declining coffee production in recent years is reflected in slow growth in GDP, increased levels of unemployment and poverty in coffee-growing areas and increasing levels of inequality. Photo/FILE
Coffee is an important cash crop in Kenya due to its contribution to foreign exchange earnings, farm incomes, rural development, employment generation and food security, especially to smallholder coffee growers who belong to cooperative societies.
Currently, it is estimated that about 135,000 hectares of land is under coffee in Kenya, of which about 67 per cent is in the cooperative sub-sector and 33 per cent is in the estates.
