Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Wycliffe Ambetsa Oparanya has expressed the government's commitment to introducing coffee farming in more regions across the country to revive Kenya's coffee sector, pledging billions in funding and reforms.
He noted that the government was focusing on not only reviving but also introducing it in new counties that have been declared favourable to grow coffee.
The CS spoke at Kinamba Trading Centre in Laikipia County during a sensitization meeting on the revival of coffee production, where he was accompanied by the Laikipia Governor Joshua Irungu, the New Kenya Planters Cooperative Union Managing Director Timothy Mirugi and a host of other leaders.
Oparanya noted that this is a three-year programme meant to revive the once-thriving subsector, noting that when the country's coffee production went down, Kenya was being overtaken by countries such as Ethiopia, Uganda, Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania.
