Abstract:
The coffee processing, or the hulling of rough coffee (Kiboko) into clean
beans is one ot the primary activities in the coffee industry.
It is this
transformation process that takes the beans from the farmer, and passes it
through cleaning, dehulling, and grading, before selling it to the Coffee
Marketing Board for export.
The terms of reference directed this working group to build on previous
studies of cottee processing (principaly Robusta) and refine the broad recommendations
into more specific actions to rationalize capacity utilization of
the factories spread throughout the county. Because it was assumed that there
was a large over capacity, and because it was assumed that pursuing a program
of adminstrative intervention to correct the distortions would be a possiblity,
tasks were directed toward identitying factories to be closed, paying
compensation to their owners, and strengthening the licensing system to
achieve control in the future.