A Murang'a farmers' coffee cooperative society has leveraged on agricultural extension services and this has seen a tremendous increase in productivity.
As a result, the Marumi coffee cooperative society's cherry fetched a high price at the coffee auction last year, making it the best-paying coffee society in Murang'a County at a rate of Sh 92 per Kilogramme.
Kenya News Agency visited the cooperative in Kigumo to find out what measures and practices the society has put in place to ensure increased production that has transformed the lives of their 1500 members/farmers.
It is 10am, Friday and the entire area is a beehive of activities.
