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Coffee pulping cost effective way for smallholder farmers to raise earnings

Kenya’s cof­fee pro­duc­tion and yields in­creased in 2019 fol­low­ing the gov­ern­ment and counties’ dis­tri­bu­tion of free tree seed­lings. But the biggest cause of farm­ers’ flight from cof­fee has been prices too low for small­hold­ers’ sur­vival. However, value ad­di­tion, by pro­cessing beans on the farm, can lift the value of small-hold cof­fee crops six-fold. In 2014, …

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