Kiyota specializes in Sri Lankan coffee sourced from Kandyan forest gardens. In 2006, Kazuyuki Kiyota, a representative of the Japan Fair Trade Committee, came to Sri Lanka to help develop specialty coffee for the Japanese market. This initiative has now expanded to 17 small-scale farmer groups with nearly 6,000 members in Kegalle, Kandy, Matale, Nuwara Eliya, and Badulla. Kiyota pays fair trade premiums, offers advance payments, and helps market farmers' intercropped spices, kithul, and other products. They are the main supplier of roasted and raw specialty coffee to distributors in Sri Lanka, and they export Sri Lankan coffee to Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States. Their target is to grow 2.5 million coffee plants in Sri Lanka before 2025 in order to support rural livelihoods, increase foreign exchange, and benefit the environment. Kiyota contributes a percent of all profits to a fund for employees.