Youth in Kathiani have been urged to invest in coffee farming.
New Mitaboni Farmers Society chairperson Felix Kilonzi said said coffee farming was lucrative, urging the youth in the area to join the sector.
"We want our youth to start planting coffee and get self employed in the coffee trading business which has been associated with the elderly in the past years," he said.
"Many people have withdrawn from coffee farming, uprooted the coffee plants from their farms and engaged themselves in other crops such as maize and beans hence reducing the coffee produce records from the former Eastern province."
He said coffee farming is one of Kenyan's highly paying sectors adding that the product has ready market in Europe.
He was speaking during a meeting convened by New Mitaboni Farmers Society on Tuesday in Kathiani.
During the event, over 50 farmers received coffee seeds from the society.
The farmer's Secreatary, Collins Mwilau, said the society will provide Sh2000 to individual youth who received the seeds.
The cash is expected to help them on harrowing land in preparation fr planting.
The society officials also said they will be provide education to the new young farmers on how to establish and care for the coffee farms.
They also promised to absorb them into the society which provides a common market for the coffee products, fertilisers, pesticides and other agricultural inputs to the members.