Fly Crop

Fly Crop is a term used in chiefly in Kenya to mean the second, smaller harvest. There are no flies in the “Fly Crop”! But the term is intriguing, and it’s origin yet a mystery to me. Fly crop is the smaller harvest that occurs in Kenya, in cyclical opposition to the Main crop harvest of August to October. It yields smaller amounts of coffee, and some say the quality is lower. Other regions have multiple yearly harvests, such as Colombia where it is called the Mitaca.

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