(Ecofin Agency) - Kenya expects its coffee yield for the 2015-2016 season to go up 22%. This increase will result from the implementation of a number of initiatives driven towards production boosting, said the industry’s regulator. The country plans on benefiting from the positive impact of the increase in lands allocated to the crop as well as of the exploitation of new plantations in its western part.

The surge should also be followed by a steep rise in revenues which will move from $182.53 million for the 2014-2015 season to about $196 million for the ongoing season.

Despite being a small coffee producer with just 1% of world production, coffee-farming holds a significant position in the country’s agricultural economy as it is one of the main sources of revenue in the sector.

It should also be highlighted that this rising tide is also a result of coffee’s natural cycle in Kenya that alternate a bad and a good season. The country is currently experiencing the good side of this cycle, Reuters reports.

Aaron Akinocho