Coffee growers want State role in the bean quashed

A farmer in Tuiyo, Kapseret Constituency of Uasin Gishu County during harvesting of ripe berries on September 25, 2021. PHOTO | JARED NYATAYA | NMG

Coffee-growing counties have moved to court seeking to quash regulations published in June, which assigned some licensing roles to the national government.

The Council of Governors (CoG) argue in a petition that other than clawing back on devolved functions, the amendments that were published on June 9 by the Ministry of Agriculture will deprive coffee growers of their proprietary rights as owners of the crop.

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