Kahiraini Coffee Factory

Mathira North Cooperative Society

Nyeri, Kenya - Farmers

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The Story of Kahiraini Coffee Factory

“Under the system, our farmers have managed to reduce cost of production by 40 per cent as the method largely relies on sun and heat in the greenhouses,” said Paul Muhoro, a Director at Crowd Farm Limited, a local coffee dealer. Small-scale coffee farmers in Kenya are enjoying up to six times increase in their earnings in global market thanks to a natural processing technology they have adopted that produces highly sought-after specialty coffee. The new technology which uses greenhouse to dry high quality red ripe cherries including the skin and pulp has been termed cheaper and produces clean cherries as compared to pulping station that the farmers were using before. Using the method farmers have managed to produce specialty coffee leading to more than six and 25 times increase in earnings and production respectively at a time when coffee prices are low in the country for the last one year, he added. Some of these farmers who are drawn from Rui Ruiru and Kahiraini coffee factories were almost shutting down due to challenges experienced with high cost of production and poor prices.

Factory and Farm Locations

Circles represent a 3km radius around each factory, where farmers receive similar weather information.