Food multinational Nestlé S.A. has launched a
multi-million shilling project, dubbed Nestlé Nescafe Project aimed at improving
the quality of coffee by offering technical support to Kenyan farmers in order
to increase yields and ultimately the quality of their product.
In the initial phase of the Nescafe Plan, Sh35 million has
been invested and the firm is planning to increase the amount of coffee it buys
from farmers to about 180,000 tonnes within the next five years.
Nine farmers’ cooperative societies, with 27 wet mills and
over 26,000 farming households are in line to benefit from the project as well
as 26,000 small-scale coffee farmers in the country.
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