{"id":452920,"date":"2011-07-04T08:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-local-coffee-agency-says-pest-could-cut-output\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T08:57:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T08:57:42","slug":"kenya-local-coffee-agency-says-pest-could-cut-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-local-coffee-agency-says-pest-could-cut-output\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Local Coffee Agency Says Pest Could Cut Output"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"31.0512679162\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nairobistar.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nairobi Star<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Kiragu<\/p>\n<p>2 July 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Kenya has warned farmers that thrips, the deadly and difficult to detect pests, may attack coffee farms this year and cut production of the beans, the state-owned Coffee Research Foundation of Kenya said yesterday. Kenya is a relatively small grower of the commodity but its speciality beans are famous for their high quality and are much sought after for blending with those from other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The east African nation&#8217;s coffee crop is traditionally susceptible to attack by pests and diseases such as the destructive Coffee Berry Disease, which attacks during the June-July window when the country experiences low temperatures across most producing areas.<\/p>\n<p>The coffee research foundation warned farmers that the new pest attack by thrips is likely to worsen when the cold season is over, expected to be sometime in August. It was unclear how much of the crop could be lost to the pest. &#8220;The thrips have a potential to destroy crop though farmers may find it difficult to detect their presence due to their tiny nature,&#8221; Joseph Kimemia, director of research at Kenya&#8217;s Coffee Research Foundation told Reuters. &#8220;The tiny insects suck juices from the coffee leaves causing them to turn pale and we urge growers to be on the look out for such symptoms as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Attacks on crop by the green scales infestation as well as the Coffee Leaf Rust disease are also likely to increase, the agency warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we could get some rains over the coffee growing areas in the coming weeks the effect of the thrips attacks could be mitigated because the insects thrive in dry weather. The rains could wash them off the crop leaves,&#8221; the agency said. In the 2007\/08 crop year, the country witnessed a terrible bout of the Coffee Berry Disease that cut its output by 23 per cent to 42,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See the original article here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201107040477.html\" title=\"Kenya: Local Coffee Agency Says Pest Could Cut Output\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya: Local Coffee Agency Says Pest Could Cut Output<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Peter Kiragu 2 July 2011 Kenya has warned farmers that thrips, the deadly and difficult to detect pests, may attack coffee farms this year and cut production of the beans, the state-owned Coffee Research Foundation of Kenya said yesterday. Kenya is a relatively small grower of the commodity but its speciality beans are famous for their high quality and are much sought after for blending with those from other countries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya: Local Coffee Agency Says Pest Could Cut Output - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/07\/04\/kenya-local-coffee-agency-says-pest-could-cut-output\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya: Local Coffee Agency Says Pest Could Cut Output - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Nairobi Star (Nairobi) Peter Kiragu 2 July 2011 Kenya has warned farmers that thrips, the deadly and difficult to detect pests, may attack coffee farms this year and cut production of the beans, the state-owned Coffee Research Foundation of Kenya said yesterday. 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