Coffee Varieties In Kenya

The coffee industry of kenya is noted for its cooperative system of production processing milling marketing and auction system.

Coffee varieties in kenya.

Kenya employs 6 million in the coffee industry. When well managed the flavor of batian has this unique kenyan character mainly sought by coffee traders. Ruiru 11 is a compact high yielding variety developed in kenya to allow for more intensive coffee production with fewer losses from diseases and pests. Batian was released in kenya in 2010.

The document has moved here. Batian was created via single tree selections from fifth filial f5 generations from the male parent of some ruiru 11 progenies. This beautiful coffee farm with nearly 100 acres under coffee is situated 1 750meters above sea level. Like sl28 batian can be considered as specialty coffee.

In the heart of kenya s central highlands home to the world s finest coffee lies fairview coffee estate. A variety resistant to coffee leaf rust and coffee berry disease created at the coffee research station crs. Coffee was first introduced in kenya in 1896 by the missionaries about 700 000 small scale farmers and 3 850 coffee estates are involved in coffee production. The small scale growers are clustered within about 450 cooperative societies.

Ruiru 11 a hybrid of catimor and sl cultivars was both cbd and clr resistant plus it could be planted at a much higher density than the sl varieties making optimal use of small plots of land. Coffee varieties are the diverse subspecies derived through selective breeding or natural selection of coffee plants while there is tremendous variability encountered in both wild and cultivated coffee plants there are a few varieties and cultivars that are commercially important due to various unique and inherent traits such as disease resistance and fruit yield. When the kenya coffee research institute cri which replaced sal after independence released ruiru 11 in 1985 the coffee sector was primed. Ruiru 11 owes its existence to a coffee berry disease cbd epidemic in 1968 that lead to the loss of 50 of kenya s production.

Now the coffee research institute cri in ruiru kenya. About 70 of kenyan coffee is produced by small scale holders. It was estimated in 2012 that there were about 150 000 coffee farmers in kenya and other estimates are that six million kenyans were employed directly or indirectly in the coffee industry.