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Farmers count losses as diseases ravage coffee crop
Coffee berries infected by bacterial blight of coffee in Nyeri last month. For three weeks, the cash crop in the county has also been attacked by coffee berry disease. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Hopes of coffee farmers realising a bumper harvest have been shattered by extreme weather.
For three weeks, farmers in Mt Kenya, where most of the Arabica coffee is grown, have been watching the green berries expected to be picked in October, fall from branches.
