Mrs. Whiteasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies the functions and composition of the Kenya Coffee Board; what is its relationship with the Kenya Coffee Marketing Board; and by what means each is financed.
§ Mr. LytteltonThe Kenya Coffee Board consists of the Director of Agriculture, two members appointed by the Governor, one of whom is a member of the Department of Agriculture, and eight coffee planters elected by the planters in the Eastern and Western Electoral Districts.
The Board controls by licence the growing of coffee outside the African reserves. In native lands the growing of coffee is controlled under the Native Lands Coffee Rules, 1951. Other functions of the Coffee Board include the registration of coffee millers, the advertising of Kenya coffee and, with the approval of the Governor-in-Council, the provision of services designed to promote the coffee industry in general.
The operations of the Board are financed from the "coffee levy fund" which consists of the proceeds of a levy imposed on exports of all types of coffee except "buni" (a crop mainly grown by Africans), fees collected in respect of certain licences and such sums as the Legislative Council may from time to time vote.
The Kenya Coffee Board appoints one member of the Kenya Coffee Marketing Board which is empowered to buy and sell all mild coffee grown in Kenya. The proceeds of sales by the Marketing Board are paid into a "coffee pool" from which the producers are paid for coffee sold to the Board.