Coffee resurgence spurs export boom for Uganda
March 4, 2021
For generations, coffee has been Uganda’s principal export.
However, the cash crop suffered major setbacks at the turn of the millennium due to a combination of factors such as the coffee wilt disease. Matters were not helped when the old coffee trees could not yield much and the changing weather patterns disrupted many farmers.
However, the intervention of the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) and the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) led to a massive overhaul of the sector.
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For instance, the agencies embarked on a long-standing replanting pro-gramme in 2010 that saw the replacement of the stock lost to coffee wilt disease as well as the sensitization of farmers on the best farming practices. The results started to be felt in 2016 with the increased production to 4.6 million bags o