Kenya’s Coffee Industry is Broken - A Farmer Explains Why!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Did you know that Kenya produces some of the best coffee in the world, yet most of its farmers struggle to make a living? In this eye-opening interview, I sit down with the owner of Karunguru Coffee Farm to uncover the hidden challenges of coffee farming in Kenya.
💡 Why are Kenyan farmers struggling while the world profits?
💰 Who really makes money from Kenyan coffee?
🚨 Is coffee farming still profitable, or is the system rigged?
Despite their hard work, many coffee farmers face low prices, high production costs, and strict government regulations that make it extremely difficult to add value by roasting and selling their own coffee locally. Instead, the system is designed to push farmers into exporting raw coffee, which is then roasted and branded abroad-only to be sold back to Kenya at premium prices.
But is there a way out? What needs to change for Kenyan coffee farmers to truly benefit from their labor?
If you're interested in agribusiness, investing in Africa, or simply love coffee, this interview is a must-watch! 🎥
🔥 Watch now & let’s talk in the comments: Should Africa focus on value addition instead of raw exports?
#Coffee #KenyanCoffee #Agribusiness #InvestInAfrica #KarunguruCoffeeFarm
Many thanks for sharing your conversation with a Kenyan coffee farmer! Just one note, Africa has the best coffee worldwide!
Excellent reporting!!🙏🏾
Chocolates, coffee and tea they are all go around come around to us with a vengeance price. We have failed to plan and organise ourselves to maintain and sustain our resources and economy in away cracks have been noticed when openly and widely used by those who consider they are more superior than us. Thank you for sharing 🤝
Thank you for the exposure of this brothers business..i visit kenya often..ill definitely will support his product..
Love what you are doing Weyni!
Pray that God continues to inspire you and bless you as you continue to bring us the detailed insight as it relates to the goal of collective economic empowerment for Black people throughout Africa, our ancestral home, and throughout the diaspora as we re-connect to Africa!
Will review the video and have additional comments...
I’d like to hear your take on the Safari industry in Tanzania and Kenya.
A good well rounded insightful conversation
Thanks for the contents you are sharing!! ….It’s sad to know the top coffee exporters ,like Switzerland and Germany don’t even grow coffee.
Thank you for sharing
My pleasure🙏🏾
You’re brave women and God bless you and protect you
Weyni, you should make African history and culture videos for schools to use to teach our kids. We have to educate our children. They have been totally colonized.
Same as minirals imported from Africa to Europe and sold back to Africa as finished products….Africa needs to transform its economy
Kenyan and Ethiopian coffee farms need to protect their coffee the way French and Italian vineyards protect their wines.
Almost all of the white highlands were for speculation and not farming. However after independence, the GOK bought back the land with loans and every settler was made whole. Those settlers who refused to sell were allowed to keep the land as long as they utilized it. I think we completed the payments circa 2006. The GOK was encouraged to plant cash crops to generate money to repay the loans and to have forex for import of finished products. At Independence we had under 10000 acres of tea and now we have 115000 acres under tea. We were the leaders in pyrethrum and the top exporter of avocados in Africa... While 80% of the country is arid. We export tea to import grains and right now the wheat farmers can't sell their harvest despite us being net importers of wheat!
all thanx to your use less mt.kenya leadership for all these years
Kindly do thorough investigation on the shameful state of our matatu industry in Kenya! 🧐 And why a country like Tanzania can successfully implement a BRT system while Kenya is struggling! 😏 Thanks in advance Weyni 🙏
Sadly, what you see in Addis market is ungraded coffee. Grade 1 or 2 goes to EU and US market in the name of 'Hard Currency'.
+@Weyni Tesfai : Beloveit Sista Queen 👑 question do you have 🎤 🎙 microphones ??? Because we can barely hear you and your guest you are interviewing.......!!! 😢 Shalom, Salaam my Hebrew Yashar'alite Misphacha.........!!!
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Regulations/Govt Policies have choked and are choking Africa
One question, amongst so many, is why is the worth of the raw material so overwhelmingly undervalued (esp. when compared to the finished product)?
This is value. The regulations around coffee have always seemed bizarre (and therefore probably colonial holdover).
Freedom fighters against colonial rule (Mau Mau) were outlawed by colonial-era legislation and designated as "terrorists" until 2003, when the Kenyan govt scrapped the legislation.
Wonderful, I forgot to say that Kenya has a relationship with Egypt as a quantity? They were the ones who established the pyramids and the Cameroon who established the Sphinx, and the Ethiopians are the ones who created temples. Did we forget anyone?😂
Beneficiation is the SECRET of commodity and mineral rich Indonesia 🇮🇩
Africa GDP will quadruple if youth acquire SKILL sets in built ICT, Agricultural , Engineering academies all over our continent
Raw coffee beans in exchange for overpriced and overvalued ground imported coffee.
Africa lacks its own institution, for example visa and mastercard
Where is the african version?,because of this, you can't control the price and destination
Mpesa in Kenya.
@freedomm mpesa is nothing and operates within swift banking system
@@jackholman5008 BRICS and other countries are looking to diversify away from SWIFT after the G7 weaponised it against Russia.
Those EU and USA are playing on Africa. Example Starbucks they bought coffee beans by cheap price from Ethiopia and they sell black coffee for cup $ 5.00
Poor audio in Gitaù's side.
Do something about it.