Kisii-based Wakenya Pamoja Sacco Society management has warned small-holder coffee growers from Kisii region to desist from hawking their coffee produce.
The Sacco's CEO, Vincent Oigo, has raised concerns over the sacco's CoDF loans beneficiaries resorting to hawking their coffee produce to middlemen. He said this will be difficult for the Sacco to recover its loans from them and lead to mass defaulters.
Speaking in his office at the sacco's Kahawa House headquarters in Kisii town on Monday evening, Oigo advised the CoDF loans beneficiaries to utilise the loans to enhance their crop husbandry and productivity to fight poverty in households and their immediate communities.
"The beneficiaries of the CoDF loans disbursed by our sacco should take advantage of the loans to improve on their agronomic practices and improve on the productivity of their coffee farming activities as part of the efforts towards poverty eradication in their households and their immediate communities,'' stated Oigo.
He reminded coffee farmers from the region that potential in coffee farming activities and investments depended on the co-operative spirit where members guarantee one another to secure various crop productivity credit and loans, unlike when one engages in black market coffee hawking to middlemen.