Nairobi, July 22 -- Metaphorically on coffee matters, we are like the proverbial gold prospector, who spent his entire life scouring distant mountains for gold only to die as a pauper. When his friends were digging the grave to buy him in his own backyard, they struck gold everywhere.

Undoubtedly Kenyan coffee is brand and its global reputation as the best quality coffee and home of specialty coffee is well documented. As a result of the on-going farmer-centric coffee reforms, coffee prices have greatly improved with some coffee farmers enjoying some of the phenomenal prices ever recorded.

Consequently, this phenomenal has triggered a frenzy expansion of coffee acreage even in traditional non-coffee growing zones. Whereas these historic...