Kenya Ngandu AB

Lime, red currant, rhubarb

The Ngandu lot was produced by various smallholder farmers, all of whom are members of the Rutuma Farmers Cooperative Society delivering to Ngandu Coffee Factory, the factory is located near the town of Karatina, in Kenya’s Nyeri County. The Cooperative act in a particular community manner, they have been trained by the cooperative and their role is to teach small scale farmers, both during the harvest and in the off season. This service has been very fruitful in two main ways at first it generate an immediately positive impact on coffee quality arriving at the factory, in second instance farmers come out from the one to one training with a better understanding of the impact of fertilisation, pruning and quality-driven harvest techniques on the price that their coffee receives at auctions and with direct buyers.