Kenya’s coffee production falls for second year

A farmer picks coffee berries in Nyeri, central Kenya. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya coffee production has dropped for two consecutive years, pushing the country further behind Africa’s top producers of the commodity whose price has rebounded in the international market.

Latest International Coffee Organisation (ICO) data for the one year to May 2021 shows that production fell from 930,000 sixty-kilogramme bags in 2018 to 775,000 in the 2020 crop year.

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