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Gatuya AB

Within the Murang’a County is the Gatuya Coffee Factory, belonging to the New Murarandia Farmers’ Cooperative Society (FCS). In Kenya, factories are essentially wet mills and collection points for coffee. The FCS has 1,250 members, and the members that live closest to the Gatuya Factory will deliver their cherries there to be processed and sold.

  • Farm Gatuya Factory
  • Varietal Batian, Ruiru 11, SL 28, SL 34
  • Process Fully washed
  • Altitude 1,850 meters above sea level
  • Region Murang’a County
  • Owner New Murarandia FCS
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After the producers gather their ripe cherries, they will deliver them to the Factory. Once the cherries reach the mill, the coffee is pulped to remove the external fruit from the coffee bean. This is done via disc pulping machine equipped with four discs to efficiently and delicately remove the fruit skin. The coffee is then soaked in cement tanks overnight to break down the remaining mucilage. Water from the nearby Muriuriu River is a fresh and local water source for processing. The following morning, the coffee is cleaned once more through channels of water, soaked a final time and dispersed on raised beds to dry in the open sun until the ideal moisture content is reached. This can take 7 – 15 days depending on the weather conditions.

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Despite its proximity to the birthplace of coffee, Ethiopia, coffee growing was introduced in Kenya relatively late – by Scottish missionaries, initially, and then commercially around 1900. Despite the late start, today, it is a country renowned for having some of the best coffees in the world. Nonetheless, Kenya’s coffee sector faces challenges for the future, and low global prices combined with climate change and population growth have diminished the country’s output over the last decade.

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