Kenya coffee output, earnings to rise in 2015/16 -regulator

Kenya expects its coffee harvest to jump by almost a quarter to 50,000 metric tonnes in the 2015/16 crop year which runs until next September buoyed by initiatives to boost production and to crop cycles, the country's crop regulator said on Tuesday. Earnings from coffee exports were expected to increase to 20 billion shillings ($196 million) based on current exchange rates, up from $182.53 million the previous year, Alfred Busolo, acting head of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority, tol