Uganda’s coffee exports in March 2020 amounted to 477,561 60-kilo bags worth $45.87M (Shs174.5bn), Uganda Coffee Investment Authority (UCDA) monthly report has revealed. It comprised 385,978 bags ($33.09M) of Robusta and 91,583 bags ($12.78M) of Arabic. This was an increase of 38.39% and 35.72% in quantity and value respectively from
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By Denis Jjuuko A poultry farmer somewhere in Uganda wakes up and looks at her chicken wondering what to do with them. She places a call to her customer to find out whether things have improved in the city. Lukaya and Namawojolo bus stops are empty, the customer says before
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Climate change has continued to have an effect on agriculture, with many farmers experiencing damage to crops and facing food insecurity as a result of prolonged droughts and heavy rains associated with climatic variability. Total dependence on rain-fed agriculture and poor soil health coupled with land degradation has increased the
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The world’s biggest pork producer is shuttering a major U.S. plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak among employees, with the company warning that closures across the country are taking American meat supplies “perilously close to the edge” of shortfalls. Smithfield Foods Inc. will idle its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, pork-processing
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Coffee is a primary cash crop and banana a primary food crop. In Uganda, farmers are increasingly resorting to intercropping as a result of declining farm sizes, and it’s also an effort to reduce risks related to income and food security. Kenneth Walakira is a coffee farmer in Nsangi Wakiso
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The Kenya government will allow importation of four million bags of maize to cushion the country against food shortage as it battles the coronavirus pandemic. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya disclosed that a Gazette Notice will be issued soon to allow importation. Of the four million bags, said Mr Munya,
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He is passionate about coffee right from the garden up to consumption. While he is mainly into value addition, his aim is to ensure that the farmer-the fulcrum of the coffee sector, equally benefits from coffee business through ‘right’ (high) prices. Literally, he drinks, speaks and dreams coffee. In a
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President Yoweri Museveni has advised Ugandans to continue farming, saying the COVID-19 pandemic that's ravaging Uganda and the world at large is likely to cause famine within the country. "While we continue to struggle with the virus, production in agriculture and industry must continue. Otherwise, we shall end up with
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Uganda’s Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Vincent Ssempijja (pictured) has admitted to having slaughtered 15 cows from government owned Lusenke stock farm for his private function. However, the Minister says the cows eaten were not breeding bulls, but castrated ones and those of poor quality. Ssempijja’s admission
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Coffee remains Uganda’s leading cash crop. Until a few years ago, coffee was Uganda’s leading foreign exchange earner until tourism sector overtook it. The good news is that coffee exports are continuing to rise according to Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA). UCDA says coffee exports in February 2020 earned Uganda
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