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Thirty nations have signed a pact increasing their agricultural budgets by 10 percent.

The Coffee Management Services has establishe a mobile alert service that will curb coffee theft. Project manager Catherine Ng'ang'a said a series of coffee theft in Central Province led to the launch of the service.

She said the alarm system gadgets will send an alert to the person incharge of the dispatch store, the soceity's chairman and the police. Ng'ang'a said insurance companies have also agreed to insure coffee on transit.

She said this should give farmers an assurance that they will get paid even if their coffee is stolen. Ng'ang'a was addressing women from 19 coffee co-operative societies in Central province at Kamweti Agricultural Training Centre in Gichugu, Kirinyaga on Tuesday.