SECOND PHASE OF COFFEE SEEDLINGS DISTRIBUTION

that affected many farmers.

While accompanying Rev. Cha Bo Yong in a seedlings’ distribution exercise at Baringo Cha Coffee Mill in Katimok area of Baringo North sub county, County Secretary Jacob Chepkwony, emphasized the importance of community empowerment through initiatives like the coffee factory that that are geared towards creating food and nutrition security and wealth creation as well.

the investor has also distributed more than 100 coffee pulping machines in order to enhance the quality of the produce from the farms.

Coffee farmers in Baringo County are reaping big from a mutual relationship muted eight years ago by County Government through Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and WorldBest Friend, a South Korea based NGO initiated by Governor H.E Benjamin Cheboi EGH, EBS to improve food security.

This is after a Korean Investor Rev. Cha Bo Yong supported them with hybrid coffee seedlings worth

Five million Kenya shillings in order to enhance production of coffee in Baringo.

This year as outlined by the department of Agriculture, Livestock and the Blue Economy, farmers were able to export to South Korea 60 Metric Tonnes of clean coffee worth Kshs 37 million although a slide drop from the previous year when they received Kshs 42 million from the same exports due to this year's drought situation

“These interventions employed through implementation of the County Flagship projects, Ward fund-specific projects and support from strategic partners is going to transform the lives of our people. Through this continued partnership with our Korean friends, we have seen great milestones in addressing food insecurity, wealth creation and income despite the project being operationalized recently,” he explained.

CECM Agriculture, Livestock and the Blue Economy, Risper Chepkong’a reiterated that apart from the support of the seedlings,

Baringo County boasts of a 1.2 tonne per hour milling factory and direct export market for coffee courtesy of Rev. Cha Bo Yong and WorldBest Friend who donated the project to actualize the devolution agenda of enhancing food security. In line with the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto of Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA), the County Integrated Development Plan, and the Governor’s Manifesto on Economic Empowerment through Agricultural development, the County has initiated the coffee improvement projects as part of the flagship projects to achieve economic empowerment. In order to motivate more farmers to venture into coffee farming, County government intends to play a vital role in streamlining the negotiation process with the direct market and create a credit facility that will act as a revolving fund.