Current situation of Kenyan Coffee in quality Coffee producer Kenya

Kenya is an important force in East Africa in the coffee world, and it is a leader in both its coffee quality and its business strategy.

The excellent coffee produced here has a clear, bright and rising flavor throughout the front and back of the tongue. The flavor is complex and rich, with very interesting fruit flavors (berries, citrus) and even spicy flavors. Clean, bright, rare wine (grapefruit) quality.

Usually excellent Kenyan coffee is not sold as a simple AA or AB, it will participate in various coffee auctions in Kenya, and only the highest bidder can win the bid. The producing areas attach great importance to variety research, planting improvement, improving farmers' cultivation skills and so on.

However, what I have learned is that these advanced auction systems in Kenya are facing endless problems. Especially related to the chaotic political situation in Kenya, if the chaos continues to intensify, it will seriously affect all kinds of coffee auctions. If farmers cannot reap the benefits of growing coffee at auction, they will switch to other crops or transplant low-quality and high-yield varieties (such as Ruiri 11) to resist diseases and insect pests, while high-quality coffee varieties (SL28,SL34) will be abandoned.

Coffee auction in Kenya

Take Nairobi Auction as an example. As a large coffee export company in Kenya, it needs to test and auction more than 600 cups of coffee a week, all from different coffee growers. The price of the auction determines the income of each planting farmer for a hard season, the survival of the fittest, and the competition mechanism of virtuous circle.

History of coffee in Kenya

Introduced from Bourbon in the 19th century (1893), local church clergy began planting in 1911 (there is an example of the intricate and intertwined relationship between coffee and religion).

Current situation of coffee in Kenya

Picking and processing time: October-December (main) June-August (scattered)

Cultivated varieties: SL-28, SL-34, Bourbon, Kents, Typica, Riuri 11

Kenyan coffee and Ethiopian Yega snow coffee, Colombia, Brazil, Mantenin can be said to be the most widely received in the country, but the more well-known coffee is, the more mixed the market is.