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- Uganda has relaunched an ambitious campaign to become the world’s third-largest exporter of coffee by 2025
- Importantly, the East African country has exported nearly 6 million 60-kilo bags in 2020. Uganda is Africa’s largest coffee exporter The country is taking a slew of measures to achieve that target, which include registration of farmers, enforcement of standards and replacement of old trees with new and high yielding ones
Uganda has relaunched an ambitious campaign to become the world’s third-largest exporter of coffee by 2025. Importantly, the East African country has exported nearly 6 million 60-kilo bags in 2020. Uganda is Africa’s largest coffee exporter.
The country is taking a slew of measures to achieve that target, which include registration of farmers, enforcement of standards and replacement of old trees with new and high yielding ones. The country expects that the exports could reach 6.5 million bags and a total production of 8 million bags.
Uganda’s Robusta coffee trees were afflicted by a viral disease in the 1990s. Since then, its scientists began breeding new, disease-resistant varieties. Coffee is the second highest foreign exchange earner for the country and is the main cash crop. Brazil tops the list in the pecking order of exporting countries. It has shipped 40.2 million bags in 2020. Vietnam ranks second with 26.4 million bags.
