If you were asked to name Africa’s most famous mountain, what would your answer be?

The odds are, you might mention Mount Kenya, no?

Although this is something of a tourist attraction, both in terms of climbing and also in terms of admiring its spectacular effect on the landscape, it seems that experts have another use for the mountain.

It seems that the soil on the slopes of the great mountain would be suitable for growing coffee.

This has been revealed recently by the Coffee Research Foundation and they have identified two thousand acres of land which would be appropriate for this purpose.

It transpires that a disease resistant coffee variety called Batian coffee is likely to be an appropriate type of coffee plant to use in this area.

It is a relatively young variety   only about three years since its development and it is especially designed to produce coffee berries after some eighteen months.

The Coffee Research Foundation are looking to plant a thousand acres over the next half decade and there have already been seeds distributed to farmers so that they are ready, once the long rains begin.