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Coffee payment plan stalls

Coffee payment plan stalls. [Photo: Courtesy]

A Sh3 billion pilot project for quicker coffee payments has run into headwinds after millers insisted that farmers must pay interest for amounts advanced to them.

More than 80,000 coffee farmers in the county had been invited to join the pilot phase of the programme launched at Nkubu in May 2018 dubbed Cherry Advance Scheme.

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