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The Coffee Development Fund (CoDF) is established under Section 34 of the Coffee Act No 9 of 2001 to provide sustainable affordable credit and advances to coffee farmers for the purpose of farm development, farm inputs, farming operations and price stabilization.

These are short term loans repayable within the crop season which is not more than 12 months and include farm inputs and farming operations.

Advances for farm inputs shall be for purchase of fertilizers, fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, farm equipment and tools.

These Fund include advances for cherry picking, farm labour, processing materials, factory maintenance, fuel, lubricants and general running costs and transport.

The fund will disburse credit through Intermediaries and involve the management committees of coffee co-operative societies for effective and efficient supervision of credit.

Towards this end, the Fund will appoint the Intermediaries through competitive bidding based on their capacity and credibility to disburse credit in the coffee growing areas. Eleven (11) Intermediaries have been appointed and more will be appointed in 2007.

Those already appointed are Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC), Embu Farmers, Gusii Farmers Rural, Meru Central Farmers, Taifa, Mathira Farmers,Nandi Farmers, Baringo Teachers, Meru South Farmers, Ntiminyakiru Rural and Meru North Farmers SACCO Societies.

For Details download and read CIRCULAR No.1/07
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