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Coffee farmers set to earn Sh80 per kilo

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A farmer sorts coffee berries. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

Small-scale coffee farmers in Kenya will soon smile all the way to the bank following the move by the Government to set the minimum price for a kilogram of cherry at Sh80.

The new policy with echoes of Guaranteed Minimum Returns (GMR) that was pledged by the Kenya Kwanza government will be implemented in the 37 coffee-growing counties.

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