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Author: BONIFACE GIKANDI\u00a0<\/strong>
\nAfricaPress-Kenya:<\/strong>\u00a0 Coffee farmers in Murang\u2019a County have called on the Agriculture ministry to facility the release of the Sh3 billion meant for the Cherry Advance Fund.<\/p>\n

The kitty was established two years ago by the government to help coffee farmers improve production.Murang\u2019a Farmers Cooperative Union chairman Francis Ngone Gathiga expresses concern that more than 40 per cent of coffee produced this year could go to waste if the money is not paid out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year, there is a good harvest because of friendly weather, but we need facilitation\u00a0for small scale farmers to ensure this does not go to waste,” he said.<\/p>\n

Other farmers in the region said they had been eagerly waiting for the money.”Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya should speed up the release of the money if the government is sincere it wants to revive the coffee sector,” said Elias Ngugi.<\/p>\n

Parliamentary association<\/strong><\/p>\n

The farmers challenged MPs from the Mt Kenya region to revive Coffee Tea Parliamentary Association that was founded by the late Cabinet minister John Michuki in the 1990s.\u201cLocal MPs are silent on matters pertaining the coffee sector. We expect them to be vocal like their counterparts in Western and Rift Valley who show a keen interest in their region’s cash crops,\u201d said Ngugi.<\/p>\n

New Kenya Planters Cooperative union chairman Henry Kinyua said applications for the funds were being analysed and that initial hitches in disbursing the money was caused by a case filed by some farmers to block the union from managing the kitty.\u201cSince the court allowed new KPCU to administer the kitty, the process to look at the applications has started,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: BONIFACE GIKANDI\u00a0 AfricaPress-Kenya:\u00a0 Coffee farmers in Murang\u2019a County have called on the Agriculture ministry to facility the release of the Sh3 billion meant for the Cherry Advance Fund. 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