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Uganda’s minister of Agriculture, Vincent Sempijja, has expressed concern over Ugandans not embracing coffee production which, to him, will help in poverty alleviation. Mr Sempijja says that government is doing its best by promoting coffee production through programs like Operation
Africa’s top two coffee growers, Uganda and Ethiopia, that accounts for more than 60 percent of coffee production in Africa, will produce 10.9m bags in 2017-8, reports a US Department of Agriculture foreign staff (Agrimoney) . This will mean an increase in 175m
According to reports by Quartz Africa, Uganda consumed only 3% of its total coffee production last year. This is far below what its neighbor, Ethiopia, who produces more coffee than Uganda is consuming. Ethiopia consumes about half its total coffee production
Java House, one of the biggest coffee shops in East Africa has opened its first shop in Kigali, reports All Africa. The coffee shop which started in Kenya has expanded to Uganda, and now Rwanda, has a total of 56
The Inter African Coffee Organisation (IACO) held its 56th Annual General Assembly in Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon on November 28 to December 3rd 2016. The theme of the symposium was “Inclusive Value Chain Transformation in African Coffee Industry”. Under
Coffee farmers and traders in Uganda are happy as coffee prices have gone up this season as compared to same period last year (reports All Africa). Ugandan Coffee Farmers Smile The price of fresh coffee cherries has gone up to
A farmers’ group in Uganda has called on the government to pass a law to protect the country’s coffee quality (Bloomberg). If such a law is passed, it will provide for crop management methods and those who mismanage their output
Ugandan Coffee Farmers Alliance, UCFA, has been using a smartphone app to monitor and manage coffee delivery. The app created in 2013 by software manufacturer SAP was part of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH develoPPP.de program, which
A Minneapolis-based coffee franchise, Dunn Brothers Coffee has partnered with the American Refugee Committee (ARC) to help them raise funds for its humanitarian relief program. In a press release published by PR Newswire, in its Changemakers Collection, Dunn Brothers Coffee
The biggest coffee exporter in Africa is likely to increase its output by 5 percent next season since trees planted in Uganda in the past few years started producing. The nation’s regulator said that weather improvement played a major part (Bloomberg.com). Also, Bloomberg reports that coffee production through September