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Coffee milling is no hard science; farmers should do it themselves

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AA grade coffee at Sasini coffee milling factory in Kiambu on May 19, 2022. [David Gichuru, Standard]

If there was a time the coffee sector was treated to major reforms it is this year and last year, thanks to Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua. Hard decisions had to be made, sometimes making industry experts wonder whether we are headed in the right direction.

The sector has been taken back to where it was several years ago when most of the coffee used to be milled by the farmers-owned Kenya Planters' Cooperative Union (KPCU).

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