NCE Stakeholder
Financiers
Financiers provide credit facilities, advances, and financial support across the coffee value chain, enabling production, processing, and trade.
Role & responsibilities
- Provide affordable credit and financing solutions to farmers and value chain actors.
- Support farm inputs, operations, and productivity improvements.
- Enable price stabilization and structured financing mechanisms.
- Facilitate access to capital across the coffee ecosystem.
Related resources
Key Financing Programs & Institutions
New KPCU - Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund (CCARF)
Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund (CCARF) provides affordable, sustainable, and accessible cherry advances to smallholder farmers (<= 20 acres under coffee).
- Managed by New KPCU under the Public Finance Management Act.
- Regulations: Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund Regulations, 2020.
- Supported by the National Government.
- Provides advances to farmers at regulated rates.
Commodities Fund
Our Mandate
- Farm improvement.
- Farm inputs.
- Farming operations.
- Price stabilization.
- Other approved agricultural purposes.
Why COMFUND
- Subsidized interest rates (3% - 7.5%).
- Flexible repayment (reducing balance model).
- Flexible securities (tripartite agreements, guarantees).
- Value chain financing (farm to market).
- Seasonal credit facilities.
- Shariah-compliant products (in development).
Clientele
- Small and large-scale farmers.
- Producer institutions.
- Licensed coffee millers / processors.
- Government and private institutions.
- Service providers (marketers, exporters, transporters, etc.).
Regional Offices
- Nairobi
- Embu
- Meru
- Nyeri
- Kericho
- Eldoret
- Bungoma
- Mombasa
From Crop to Cup
Quality at every stage