Kericho co-op commissioner calls on coffee societies to venture into alternative projects

Coffee Cooperative societies in Kericho County have been advised to diversify their production activities so as to cushion them in hard times The Kericho County Commissioner of Cooperatives Mr. Leonard Otii said they were encouraging coffee Cooperative societies and others to embrace diversification of activities so as to enable generation of income if one of…

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How middlemen, private millers are dealing a blow to coffee cooperatives

By Emmanuel Gwakoi Gusii Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (GCFCU) Chief Executive Officer Robert Mainya has disclosed that coffee hawking has affected operations of coffee farmers’ cooperative societies and farmers earning. Speaking to Education News in his office, Mainya argued that farmers who sell their produce to middlemen and private millers deny the cooperatives the chance…

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