Coffee Chort AKI

KCCE ‘Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters’, a cooperative founded in 2009 and supported by the governmentto respond to the needs of Kenyan coffee farmers to have more control over the marketing of their own production in order to obtain higher net yields and to improve the quality of their coffee. addressing various challenges faced by the coffee sector related to coffee production, quality, marketing and added value. Together with KCCE we have added coffees from nine washing stations that are located in the Nyeri region, these washing stations (known locally as ‘factories’) are organized within Cooperatives that are members of KCCE. In two factories we have developed our natural experiments with anaerobic fermentation and ‘sleeping bag’ drying technique repeating the process we had previously done in Murang’a and Kiambu, This is the first year in which we have carried out experimental processes in Cooperatives in Kenya, until now we had only carried them out in small farms. The result of this work are stable and very clean lots, and the producers are very encouraged, since this type of coffees create a new market niche for them.

The Njuriga Washed station is located in the Nyeri coffee region, specifically in the Nyeri County coffee district.
This Washed station began operating in 1999, consolidating with many Producers in the area who deliver their cherries for processing.
The Farms that contribute to the delivery of cherries to this Washed station are located at an altitude between 1,700 and 1,780 meters above sea level, growing coffee cherries of the Variety SL 28, Batian, Ruiru 11, SL 24 that develop in clayey soils.
This Washed station also forms a unique Cooperative, due to the amount of members that form it, they are more than 470, its name is also Njuriga and it is directed by Pauline Mumbi Karim.
Maggi is in charge of the Njuriga Washed station, she is a woman with a unique energy and a great sense of humor, James Maina is in charge of the wet mill, both are a great team, they like to excel and face new challenges.
Together with the Njuriga team, we develop different processes in our Coffee batches, such as Natural Sleeping Bag, Anaerobic Natural Sleeping Bag or processes with double fermentation, among others.
Our coffees are processed at the Washed station in Njuriga and are named after the Chort star.