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Farmers rake in Sh471m at auction as coffee trading year opens

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Farmers sort out coffee cherry at Kirimara-Mutanga Coffee factory yard in Nyeri. [File, Standard]

The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) traded 11,480 bags of coffee during the weekly auction, earning farmers Sh471.2 million.

During the first auction of the 2024-2025 coffee trading financial year on Tuesday, 60 per cent of the deliveries consisted of grades AA and AB.

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