Coffee farmers have been assured of higher pay in the incoming season of 2025/2026 as the government is firms up reforms to ensure timely availability of inputs.
Deputy President Prof. Kithure Kindiki said the government is putting together all the resources including subsidized fertilizer, pesticides and certified coffee seedlings through better resourcing from the Coffee Research Institute to ensure farmers’ interests are taken care of from production to marketing.
Speaking at Kianjang’a Primary School Grounds, Ndia in Kirinyaga County, where he held an open engagement forum with 12,000 coffee farmers from Ndia Constituency, the DP updated farmers on government interventions in the incoming coffee season and received suggestions on how to sustain profitability in the sector from the farmers’ representatives.
“To ensure farmers receive their inputs on time, the government is firming up reforms that will guarantee timely access to fertilizer, subsidized pesticides, and certified coffee seedlings,” said Kindiki.
The DP noted that Parliament will soon finalize the enactment of the Coffee Act, 2025 and the Cooperatives Act, 2025, adding the new legal framework will enhance governance and accountability within cooperative societies and coffee factories, while removing exploitative middlemen who have long benefited at the expense of farmers.
In the just ended season a kilo of cherry fetched Ksh 110- 150 across societies in Mt Kenya region with highest being in Othaya, Nyeri County that paid Ksh 162 per kilo.
Farmers at the meeting voiced their appreciation for the ongoing reforms and called for further support in marketing, access to finance, and protection from price manipulation.
