Producer Co-operative: Women in Coffee

Surrounded by mountains, the largest indigenous forest in eastern Africa and 2000 m above sea level: that's the location of Kabngetuny, a co-operative which holds a special project called Women in Coffee. 

Led by Marion Ng'ang'a, who is a trained agronomist, Women in Coffee enables female coffee farmers to cultivate their own fields. Members of the co-operative produce high quality coffee which meets international standards.

Photo below: using a wet mill, the farmers slowly dry the beans for 3 weeks until the moisture content is 10-12%

   

Photo above: manager Jeremiah and Chris from wertkaffee - our import partner for Kenyan beans

Producer Co-operative: Meteitei Set Kobor

Meteitei Set Kobor is located in Nandi County, a part of western Kenya. The association of 323 farmers in this co-operative society was founded in 2019.

Manager Jeremiah and his team even built their own factory: farmers deliver their coffee cherries, which are processed and offered as a joint-product. Quality standards are high and always assured.

The Kenyan co-operative features a women in coffee project with 50 farmers. Mary Korir is the project´s chair woman and a farmer herself: she owns 1.200 coffee trees of two different varieties.

 

 

Photo above: chair woman Mary Korir and Chris from wertkaffee - our import partner for Kenyan beans