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Kenya will license farmers’ coffee cooperative societies as agents to export coffee, an initiative likely to ignite a new business war with established local and international marketers. Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) chairman Cornelly Serem said as part of reforms in the coffee subsector, the societies will directly market their produce internationally. “Having succeeded in licensing farmers associations as coffee brokers in the last few years, our next move is to register new agents to ship coffee overseas,” said Serem. He said the national and county governments are working jointly with established coffee societies to ensure they meet all the required regulations before being granted export licenses.

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