Machakos county assembly on Thursday through its agricultural committee passed a motion on steps that the county should take to save the limping coffee sector.
The committee's report chaired by Kangundo Central MCA Moses Mitaa indicates that the coffee Farmers in the county are suffering hence measures should be taken to revive the sector.
Some of the measures to be taken include conducting fresh elections in the committee governing the Lower Eastern coffee mill in Machakos town.
Also, the government will be expected to find the farmers a licensed marketer for both local and international markets.
"Since Lower Eastern coffee mill is only licensed to mill coffee, the government ought to find a marketer for the farmers," Mitaa said.
The county government is expected to do thorough investigations on the usage of funds in the coffee cooperative societies in Kangundo, Matungulu, Kathiani and Machakos Central.
This is in a bid to determine the debt by the farmers and what they owe.
Mitaa, however, said the government should also start a treasury that will see loaning of these societies.
"So that these societies won't be disbanded when there are no funds," he said.
This comes at a time when the coffee farmers were contemplating on uprooting their crops due to low returns.
Some of these farmers lamented that they have been counting loses since the crop price has gone down compared to a couple of years down the line.
"Coffee farmers were reaping big but now we have been reduced to paupers because of corrupt society admistrators and low prices of coffee," Mitaa said.
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