Kenya to start direct coffee sales to US

By SILAS NTHIGA
Kenya is soon to start direct sales of coffee to the United States.

A government delegation, led by the Cooperative Development minister, Mr Peter Njeru Ndwiga, leaves for the US in a week to finalise the plans.

This will be the first time for the Kenyan coffee to be auctioned abroad.

Currently, all the commodity is sold at the Nairobi auction where brokers buy it for resale to world consumers in their own brand names.

The Kenyan crop is sold raw and later processed and mostly blended with that from other parts of the world due to its superior quality.

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