By Business Daily
Production of coffee in the Mount Kenya region has drastically changed due to unpredictable weather patterns that have altered the cycle of the crop.
Farmers have been grappling with extremely dry weather and continuous rainfall, which adversely affect the flowering of the coffee plant.
Flowering occurs when the coffee plant has undergone water stress for a couple of months, which should be followed by rainfall for it to produce coffee optimally.
But the coffee plant has experienced too much rain since the beginning of the picking season, meaning the flowering process will be late thus delayed picking.
Farmers were supposed to have finished picking their coffee last month but a majority are still harvesting this month, a phenomenon that has not been witnessed before. Read more…
