Since the start of the year, Muthie has delivered 400 kg of coffee berries for processing at the cooperative's mill, located ...

Growers find that the changing climate is having a big impact on the size of their harvests.

Victor Munene, an agronomist at the cooperative, underlined the lucrative potential of coffee farming in the region. "A half-acre (0.2-hectare) piece of land can generate about 96,000 Kenyan shillings ...

by-laws and other regulations governing coffee farming in Kenya make the farmer incur a lot of costs along the supply chain. Buying cherry from the farmer will eliminate costs such as ...

"We call coffee the black gold around here," Mr Macharia, whose farm covers 2.5 hectares (six acres) , told the BBC. He grows the Kenya AA coffee beans, which are prized worldwide for their high ...

Since the start of the year, Muthie has delivered 400 kg of coffee berries for processing at the cooperative's mill, located about 4 kilometers from his farm in Kenya's central county of Kirinyaga.

A study by Anker and Anker, 2016 placed the living wage of rural Mount Kenya at Sh158,316 gross per year, yet an average farmer earns Sh10,000 annually from coffee farming. There is an urgent need ...

Over the last two decades, about 130,000 hectares, or 3,210,000 acres, of forest have been lost annually for coffee ...