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Kenyan Coffee has a story.

At the end of the 19th century, coffee was brought to Kenya by the priests of the Holy Spirit Church (Fathers of Holy Spirit congregation). It is more common to say that it came from the island of Reunion in 1893, possibly from the island of Bourbon, where coffee was found, or from Ethiopia.

Kenya-although Ethiopia is next to it, Kenya's coffee industry has developed relatively late, with records of French missionaries bringing coffee trees from the island of Reunion in 1893.

The first batch of coffee beans they harvested was in 1896.

When coffee was first introduced to Kenya, Kenya was a British colonial country. In order to earn foreign exchange, the British colonial government widely promoted the cultivation of coffee in Kenya and shipped it to London for export after the beans were harvested. It was not until 1933, when Kenya passed a coffee law and established a coffee committee, that coffee sales were transferred back to Kenya.

Originally-coffee was grown on large estates under British colonial rule; harvested coffee beans were shipped to London for sale. The Coffee Act of 1933 was passed and the kenya Coffee Committee was established, which transferred coffee sales back to Kenya.

In the early 1950s, shortly after the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, the government passed a farm bill that allowed every family to increase farmland ownership and grow crops to increase income in addition to self-sufficiency.

This is also the beginning of the transfer of coffee production from Britain to Kenya. Total income rose from £5.2 million in 1955 to £1400 in 1964; 55 per cent of that growth was due to coffee production.

The Kenyan government attached great importance to coffee sales, and the following year, in 1934, the government established a coffee auction system, and in 1935, a draft coffee grading system was formally drawn up to improve coffee quality. With the attention of the Kenyan government, the coffee industry has developed very successfully.

There is an interesting phenomenon that, unlike Ethiopians, Kenyans do not like coffee, but prefer English black tea as a daily drink, which has something to do with Kenya being a former British colony. There are still many places in Kenya that clearly reflect the traces of Britain, whether it is the national emblem, democracy, laws, or architecture, transportation, roads, or English, the official language, as well as the coffee trading system, auction system, traceability system, and so on, we can see that Kenya is greatly influenced by Britain.

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