Murang'a Farmers Co-operative Union Chairman Francis Ngone and CEO Irene Kabochi during the meeting. /photo by Kamau Njoroge

Coffee Cooperatives tell Govt to focus on raising production, reject farmers’ direct payment plan

Coffee Cooperatives have urged the Government to focus on supporting farmers through their respective cooperative societies or unions to increase coffee production in the country. They argue that focus should be primarily on ensuring farmers have access to subsidized fertilizer, other farm inputs including chemicals and quality seedlings noting that this will put Kenya in…

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Why it is expedient for coffee cooperatives to register own federation

By Fred Sitati The Sessional Paper No 4 of 2020 themed “Promoting Cooperatives for Socio-Economic Transformation” seeks to transform cooperatives in the country by, among other initiatives, advocating for formation of sub-sector-specific Federations to provide specialised services to their member-affiliates.  This is necessary to guarantee effective service delivery to the ordinary cooperators who are members…

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