Small scale coffee farmers contracted to Nyamonya Cooperative Society in Sameta Sub-County have been warned against engaging in ghost coffee farming.
Speaking at the Cooperative's head offices at Nyakegogi shopping centre today, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Moses Oroko issued a stern warning to all those engaging in shady deals of selling ghost coffee kilos to farmers who do not deliver coffee to the society only to earn huge payments from other farmers' sweat.
Oroko confirmed that, some farmers who do not deliver their coffee to the factory connive with corrupt weighing clerks to make entries of ghost coffee kilos in exchange for cash.
"As a management we have realised that some of our farmers do not deliver coffee worthy the kilos reflected in the gross of entries by our clerks. This raises the question with regards to the source of such inflated kilos which overstretch our payments to the farmers leading to poor payments," said Oroko.
Oroko however added that the management has plans of conducting a coffee trees census to ascertain each grower's true position in terms of coffee deliveries to the co-operative and the cumulative kilos per crop for each season.