State targets non-traditional zones in coffee revival drive

A farmer inspects her coffee bushes at Miteta village in Laikipia County on July 22, 2025. 

Photo credit: Joseph Kanyi | Nation Media Group

The government has set up two steering committees to spearhead a two-year drive to revive coffee farming, in the latest official effort to arrest declining production and reverse years of shrinking acreage in traditional highland zones.

According to a latest gazette notice by Cooperatives Cabinet Secretary Wycliffe Oparanya, the committees, a national and a county one, will design strategies to expand the crop beyond the core coffee belt, and specifically introduce the crop in emerging and non-traditional regions.

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