The Mountain Journal Four coffee cooperative societies in Embu and Kiambu have resolved to increase consumption of coffee through ensuring each of their members buy at least half a kilogramme annually. Through a programme dubbed ‘eat what you produce,’ the farmers will register improved sales of their commodity as they enjoy the commodity once regarded…
The Mountain Journal Tea farmers in Kirinyaga have gotten a major boost after receiving equipment for theconstruction of a green tea processing factory to tap on the growing global demand for premiumspecialty tea.The steamed Green Tea Factory project is being developed through the support of Kenya TeaDevelopment Agency (KTDA) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)…
The Mountain Journal Murang’a coffee farmers will share 495,850 kgs of lime recommended to freshen the soils and reduce acidity, thus leading to increased coffee production. In a programme financed facilitated by the local county government, 37,000 farmers registered to benefit from the lime distribution programme, which ended on Saturday, designed to increase production per…
Coffee market resumes from recess generating Sh 345 million The Mountain Journal Kenya’s coffee has earned growers Sh 345 million after the auction of 6,622 bags of coffee at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE). The trading resumed on Wednesday after two months recess where the early crop from Cooperative societies in the counties of Meru…
The Mountain Journal Kenya’s coffee has earned growers Sh 345 million after the auction of 6,622 bags of coffee at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE). The trading resumed on Wednesday after two months recess where the early crop from Cooperative societies in the counties of Meru and Machakos dominated the auction. The NCE report indicated…
The Mountain Journal The tea exporters bought 5,530,474 kgs of made tea that generated Sh 1.7 billion after the sale of 5,530,474 kgs of made tea sourced from the KTDA managed factories through the Mombasa Tea Auction . At the auction the 53 buyers bought 10 million kgs that were offered by the producers from…
The Mountain Journal Murang’a coffee farmers will get free lime to assist in reduction of the acidity from the soils in a strategy to increase coffee production in four years. With billions of shillings paid to farmers after the global market is attracted to Kenyan coffee, Murang’a is set to increase production in a venture…
The Mountain Journal The government is fast-tracking the passage and enactment of the new Cooperatives Bill that will modernize the sector and make it more beneficial to millions of members of cooperative societies spread across the country, Deputy President Kithure Kindiki has said. Prof. Kindiki stated that President Ruto is set to sign the Bill…
The Mountain Journal An uproar is looming in Kiambu between the KTDA tea factories leadership and the local County Government following the introduction of the contentious Agriculture Infrastructure maintenance fee the directors are resisting. The KTDA factories chairmen led by the local board Member and Gatundu South MP Gabriel Kagombe, in a memorandum dated June…
The Mountain Journal Kenya’s Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe to stop with immediate effect from export of raw produce to the market, instead venture into value addition. Kagwe called on African nations to confront the unfair global practice of tariff escalation, where developed markets allow raw agricultural commodities to enter at low or zero duty…
