Kenya Races To Map Coffee Farms In 2 Months To Comply With EUDR – CoffeeTalk

Kenya is set to map 76,696 hectares of coffee farms across the country over the next two months as the government aims to comply with a European Union (EU) market rule that seeks to ban the sale of goods linked to deforestation starting January next year. The exercise, set to be completed by the end of September this year, will be coordinated by the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA) and will also involve the State Departments of Agriculture and Cooperatives, the Kenya Forest Service (KFS), and the Kenya Space Agency (KSA). Other institutions involved include the Directorate of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS) and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation (KALRO).

The AFA reports that the government has already geo-mapped approximately 30% of the national coffee-growing land in 16 out of 33 counties, representing 32,688 hectares of coffee farms out of the total national growing area of 109,384 hectares. The EU Parliament voted in November last year to bring forward the implementation of the EUDR from 30 December 2024 to 30 December this year, in response to concerns raised by member states, non-EU countries, and traders that they would not be able to comply within the earlier set timelines.

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