End coffee shutdown to spare farmers losses

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Metrin Wafula, a coffee farmer at Cheptais in Bungoma County harvests ripe berries. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The dip in the price and volumes of coffee at the Nairobi exchange is the culmination of months of confusion and turmoil in the key sector, which calls for urgent action to prevent a total collapse of the key sector.

The numbers are damning, with volumes down by 95.6 percent in August to just 192 tonnes, and the average price of a 50kg bag down 31.1 percent to Sh183.41.

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