Coffee from Kirinyaga’s Kii factory fetches record price
A coffee grader displays various grades of green coffee beans at Kirinyaga County Cooperative Union Laboratory on February 26, 2019. A consignment of coffee from the tiny Kii processing factory in Kirinyaga county has fetched the highest price in five years amid a scramble by buyers and roasters for high-quality beans.
A 50-kilogramme bag of AA-grade coffee from the factory under Rungeto Farmers’ Cooperative Society fetched $686 (Sh85,778.08) or Sh1,715.56 a kilogramme during the Tuesday auction at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange.
This was the highest earnings since 2017.
Buyers took up 17 bags of the speciality coffee netting growers from Kii some Sh1,458,227.36 from the single sale.
A consignment of coffee from the tiny Kii processing factory in Kirinyaga county has fetched the highest price in five years amid a scramble by buyers and roasters for high-quality beans.
A 50-kilogramme bag of AA-grade coffee from the factory under Rungeto Farmers’ Cooperative Society fetched $686 (Sh85,778.08) or Sh1,715.56 a kilogramme during the Tuesday auction at the Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) the highest earnings since 2017.
