Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua now says that the government has cornered cartels in the coffee industry.
He said the State has also foiled plans by the cartels to frustrate the ongoing reforms in the agricultural subsector.
The DP noted that the reforms in the coffee subsector were facing resistance from brokers and middlemen who have been profiteering more than the farmers.
"They have been buying the produce at a low price, sell at high prices and retain all the profits. We have been asking them to share the profits but are opposed to it.
"Instead they conspired to boycott the Kenyan coffee, create an artificial crisis in an attempt to coerce the government into abandoning the reforms," the DP said.
He spoke during Sunday's church service at the PCEA Mihuti in Mukurweini.
Gachagua said government's decision to pay coffee farmers an advance of Sh4 billion and invite global coffee dealers to directly buy Kenyan coffee, are some of the moves that have thwarted plans of the cartels.
He added that the government was exploring more solutions to problems bedeviling the sector by seeking ground-breaking business deals for farmers.
The Deputy President said Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives Simon Chelugui is currently working on modalities for payment of the Sh4 billion directly to coffee farmers.
He noted that cartels frustrated implementation of coffee reforms in 2019 and this made the previous administration stall the reforms.
"This time we are determined. The government has set aside Sh4 billion and there is another Sh2 billion to buy coffee. We thank President William Ruto for his intervention," Gachagua said.
"We had a meeting with American ambassador to Kenya Meg Whitman and she agreed to introduce our coffee to the world's largest coffee chain Starbucks."
The DP explained that government's fight with brokers and middlemen was about profits and the much needed reforms are on course.
Gachagua who spent his weekend in Nyeri was accompanied by leaders from the county and from the larger Mt Kenya region.
