By MUCHEMI WACHIRAMore by this AuthorThis year will go down as one of the most challenging for coffee farmers, with the government’s attempts to reform the ailing sub-sector failing to have any impact. But with the anticipated reforms still in limbo, there’s little for most farmers to smile about. And they may be headed for another round of discontent following a stalemate between officials of co-operative society smallholder farmers who use saccos to market their crop and the Coffee Subsector Implementation Committee (CSIC). Poor working relationship between the CSIC and the societies’ officials has been a disadvantage to growers. Commissioner for Co-operatives Mary Mungai has been urging officials of farmers’ unions to take advantage of the fund with limited success.

Source: Daily Nation December 31, 2017 03:11 UTC