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Coffee Bill headed for Senate as MPs endorse provisions

Coffee farmer

Jane Maina tends to her coffee at Wakamata village in Nyeri County on October 13, 2021. 

Photo credit: Joseph Kanyi | Nation Media Group
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By  David Mwere

Correspondent

Nation Media Group

What you need to know:

  • If the Coffee Bill, 2020 becomes law, farmers will have to approve factory or society loans.
  • The Bill reintroduce coffee levies that were abolished in 2014.

Coffee factories and societies will no longer take loans without farmers’ approval if a Bill passed by the National Assembly yesterday becomes law.

Any loans borrowed in contravention of the law will be statutorily converted into personal loans of the officials of the offending factory or society.

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