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Kenya coffee production rebounds amidst regulatory changes

Raw Common Coffee Bean
Kenya
Published Jun 7, 2023

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Coffee production and exports from Kenya are expected to increase by about 6.7% and 5.5%, respectively, in market year 2023/24, due to improved rain conditions, government subsidies for fertilizers and relatively high prices. At the same time, a lack of access to new planting materials and long-term price instability remain as threats to Kenya’s coffee sector, according to the most recent USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) report. [Note: This is part of a series of DCN stories exploring the FAS coffee annual reports. The U.S. information agency is currently scheduled to deliver 16 annual country-level reports on the coffee sector. Each of those reports come from different authors and field offices.] Kenya’s coffee sector remains well regarded for its production of high-quality arabica coffees. Yet the East African country’s trading structure remains unique, with more than 90 percent of coffee sales moving through the nearly 80-year-old Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE), a spot ...
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