Coffee Farmers Associations Want Stake In Policy Making
Farmers should be involved in formulation of all initiatives aimed at supporting coffee and in all decision making on matters regarding the sector.
Kenya Coffee Producers Association (KCPA) officials decried that farmers were not involved in the development of government interventions measures despite the fact that they were the key stakeholders in the sector.
Giving the status of the coffee industry in Kenya, KCPA chairman Peter Gikonyo at a press conference at Wakulima house said that in many occasions, draft policies were finalized without their input only for the farmers to be informed when such documents were ready for a ceremonial ratification.
