Introduction of World Coffee producing area to Kenya (2)

About coffee.

Coffee planting history and development status:

The history of coffee cultivation in Kenya began in 1893 when Scottish missionaries introduced mocha to Kenya from the port of Aden in Yemen. Until 1950, coffee was grown on a large scale mainly by European immigrants on farms that were conducive to mechanized farming and irrigation. After 1952, the government also allowed some farmers to grow on a small scale in mountainous areas that lacked labor or rainfall or on flat land that was not conducive to irrigation. Because the processing of coffee requires a certain amount of investment and tools, and these small farmers are underfunded, so they form cooperatives in the form of common use of capital tools and can get timely support and assistance from cooperatives in production and processing. After harvest, the coffee is inspected seven times by the public treatment plant of the disaster cooperative for fine processing. Coffee produced in the form of cooperation now accounts for 65% of Kenya's coffee exports.

In 1993, in order to adapt to the rapid development of Kenyan coffee industry, the Kenyan government, farmers and middlemen combined to form the Kenyan Coffee Association CBK, which played an important role in coffee production, marketing, research, property, business source and so on. The Kenya Coffee Association also formulates a series of legal regulations related to root coffee, formulates and manages documents related to the coffee industry (from cultivation to export), and issues certificates of origin of coffee.

Kenya Coffee Association is also responsible for coffee auction, which is Kenya's unique way of selling coffee. Within a year, it takes place in every state except August and Christmas at the coffee exchange center in the capital Nairobi. All coffee dealers participating in the auction must obtain certain qualifications. The samples of raw coffee beans will be sent to the bidders ten days before the auction, and then the bidders will contact the relevant auction agents and bake them in their own way, and all the processed provinces will have experts in charge of bidding to carry out unified appraisal and evaluation. those with the highest score on the day of the auction will be given the right to buy raw beans. The winner must settle the funds within a week and get the raw beans. The coffee year in Kenya runs from October 1 to September 30 of this year. Since 1 August 2002, the Kenya Coffee Commission is no longer in charge of coffee auctions, but is in charge of three other agencies (Millers Socfinaf, Kenya Planters' Co-operative Union (KPCU) and Thika Coffee Mills (TCM)). Another significant change is that coffee middlemen pay money more directly and more quickly like coffee agents, who return the proceeds to farmers within a week.

The Kenya Coffee Commission also plays an important role in coffee processing, identification, technical research and development, and marketing. It also acts as a government representative to deal with the participation and formulation of a number of international agreements related to coffee. Kenya plays an active role in the world special coffee movement. All along, Kenyan coffee has also made unremitting efforts to produce high-quality coffee, making Kenya internationally recognized as a stable high-quality coffee, and has maintained a high price.