Coffee market fetch Sh915 million as farmers usher 2025/2026

The Mountain Journal

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Kenya’s coffee market achieved a payment of Sh915.4 million after the auction of 15,582 bags of the commodity at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE), at the closure of the coffee year 2024/2025 on September 30.

The payment market improved slightly compared to the last Sh 830.4 million after the auction of 14,726 bags of coffee.

Report from NCE indicates Alliance Berries Limited offered the highest consignment of 3,979 bags that netted Sh236.6 million, Kirinyaga Slopes bagged 2,712 bags for Sh157.4 million, New KPCU 3,159 bags for Sh186.9 million, among others.

Other brokers who participated in the auction are CEBBA 433 Bags for Sh 26 million, Meru county 1,128 bags for Sh 62 million, and Kipkelion 1,771 bags for Sh 106.6 million.

An electronic board displays bids from competing coffee buyers in the auction room at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, May 23, 2017. While Kenya grows very little coffee compared to regional producers such as Ethiopia and Uganda, its beans are prized globally and are often used in blends. Photographer: Riccardo Gangale/Bloomberg via Getty Images

NCE CEO Lisper Ndung’u, in her report, indicates that 19 local and international coffee buyers participated, where Ibero Kenya bought 5,356 bags, C.Dormans 2,959, Taylor Winch 2,006 bags, Louis Dreyfus 1,576 bags, among others.

“In the market, the cooperatives and estate farmers offered 1,243 bags of grade AA, and 5,684 bags of AB that netted Sh 909.4 million and Sh 350.4 million respectively,’ said Ms Ndungu.

Factories that achieved the highest prices are Nduluma Sh 62,674, followed by Gachika, Ndundu, and Kiandu factories that posted Sh 61,899 per bag of grade AA brokered by New KPCU and Alliance Berries Limited.

Peter Gikonyo, a veteran coffee farmer, says there is a need to be more dedicated in the year 2025/2026 which started on October 1.

“ As the farmers are concentrated in aggressive coffee farming the government should ensure there is provision of the promised subsided fertiliser to facilitate increased production of quality produce,” said Gikonyo.