<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b11bd87f-21d6-4cf5-bd05-35ae7fab98e7/BB640CF4-9DF2-408D-962F-2644E1F55DB6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822" href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bdafrica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822"><DIV>While in  traditional coffee growing zones farmers have left the farms to grow into bushes and threatened to uproot them, a new attack is emerging  menacingly. This time, it is the growing appetite for real estate. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822"><DIV>Thousands of acres of prime land under coffee are slowly disappearing as demand for high-end housing in peri-urban areas increases.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822"><DIV>Areas most affected by the development are those surrounding major towns such as Nairobi, Kiambu, Thika and Nyeri, which are  known for their lush coffee estates.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822"><DIV>“The returns you can get from a hectare of coffee as compared to real estate are smaller. Coffee also takes a lot of time for one to realise returns,” said Mr Muchomba.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8504&Itemid=5822"><DIV>He adds that the survival of the coffee estates now depends a lot on the kind of incentives that the coffee sector receives to improve its competitiveness against other sectors.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BB640CF4-9DF2-408D-962F-2644E1F55DB6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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