Contact person: Kizito A., Chairperson.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator
GPS Coordinates: -0.54225, 30.14754.
Contact Person: Monica Kiconco, Manager. Mob: +256 772 683 271.
Contact Person: Isaac Ssemuweba, Factory owner. Mob: +256 772 846 676.
Established: 1998.
Interest: Access more coffee buyers and exporters; traders with coffee to mill.
Description: Factory offers milling services; buys Arabica and Robusta coffee from farmers and traders (Mitooma, Bushenyi, Rubirizi), mills the coffee from kiboko to clean which is sold to the exporters.
Contact Person: Amos Kasigi, Managing Director. Mob: +256 753 185 555, +256 708 153 244.
Established: 2007.
Profile Video: https://youtu.be/YgsqWUx58Hg.
Partners: Rootcapital, Operation Wealth Creation, USAID, Uganda Quality Coffee Traders’ & Processors’ Association, OikoCredit, aBi Development Ltd and UCDA e.t.c.
Description: The company processes and exports sundried and washed arabica from Bugisu and robusta from central, western and eastern region. It has an annual capacity of 12,000Metric Tonnes of coffee. Its coffee buyers are both local and international companies that exports ready and graded coffees such as Olam, UGACOF, TOUTON, Kyagalanyi Coffee, TRC Specialty Commodities, ENGELHART (ECTP) among others. It also deals in cocoa production for exporting in the European markets.
Contact Person: Alfred Nabitawo Wasikye.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Email: bukonzoorg@gmail.com. Contact Person: Jacinta Bwambale Kabugho.
Partners: BTC, BD, aBi Development Ltd, Lutheran World Relief (LWR), NUCAFE, USADF, PURPROJET, AGRITERRA and Kiima Foods among others. Description: BOCU is a union composed of 13 primary cooperatives founded in 2009. It consists of 2,552 farmers who produce certified fair trade organic specialty hand-picked Arabica coffee grown from the foothills of Rwenzori mountains in western Uganda at the elevation between 1,200 and 2,000 meters. It grows SL28 and SL14 coffee varieties grown in old tectonic soil. Main harvests happen between August to November and fly crop is in March up to May. It produces 15 containers per year through its 46 micro washing stations. It supports the local communities through beekeeping, SACCOs, energy cook stoves, passion fruits e.t.c
Contact Person: Allons Ampereza.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Ashiraf Lutaya, Manager. Mob: +256 755 445 540.
Contact Person: Muhammudu Zziwa. Mob: +256 776 141 668.
Established in: 2020. Description: Buys, mills and sells Robusta coffee.
Contact person: Jonathan Siwa, Chairperson. Mob: +256 753 663 794.
Description: Arabica Coffee Nursery Operator
GPS Coordinates: 0.3504, 32.6641.
Contact Person: Sabiiti Bernard, Director.
Contact Person: Triumph Nimbareeba, Exports Manager and Logistics. Mob: +256 774 850 847, +256 704 300 697. Email: triumphbesmarkcoffee@gmail.com.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter
GPS Coordinates: 0.25744, 32.79181.
Contact Person: Arinaitwe Geoffrey, Director. Mob: +256 782 278 389. Email: directornacori@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Chemutai Job, Cocoa. Mob: +256 787 168 395, +256 704 396 803.
Contact Person: Dr. Kagezi Godfrey, Coffee. Mob: +256 776 182 788, +256 704 182 788.
Description: NACORI develops coffee tissue plantlets which are being supplied to UCDA that latr distributes them to different certified nursery operators across the country.
GPS Coordinates: 0.31163, 32.77396.
Description: It is a coffee and tree nursery consisting of coffee cuttings and clones (KR1-KR10), cocoa seedlings, Eucalyptus and other fruit seedlings.
Contact Person: Kabunga Daniel Kizito.
Coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Timothy Ahimbisibwe, Director. Mob: +256 706 717 246. Email: ahimbstim28@gmail.com.
Twitter: @RedAntsCoffeeUG
Established: 2018.
Standardization: UNBS.
Interest: it aims at reaching a wider customer base and develop strategic partnerships.
Description: Deals in buying, processing and selling Robusta coffee powder under the brand name of Red Ants Coffee which is sold to cafes and hotels. The company was the 3rd Best of Robusta Coffee in 2021 as recognized by UCDA. The firm sources most of its coffee from Bwenda Coffee Farmers and Traders. Some of their partners include: CURAD and MARKUP. They aim at increasing awareness their brand visibility in Uganda’s market.
Contact Person: Ssenyonga Emmanuel.
Description: Coffee growers, processors and exporters.
Contact Person: Seith Mpamize, Chairperson. Mob: +256 774 682 630. Email: smpamize@yahoo.com.
Contact Person: Penina Twebirwe, Treasurer. Mob: +256 782 907 969.
Contact Person: Baalde Bernard, Secretary. Mob: +256 773 562 096.
Established: 2019.
Membership: Ntungamo Coffee Growers Cooperative Union.
Description: It deals in sensitization of farmers on good agriculture practices, bulking of coffee and collective bargaining of coffee after hulling.
Contact Person: Luyombo Muluya Phillip, Chairman. Description: Robusta coffee growers.
GPS Coordinates (Sheema): -0.58168, 30.38865.
Description: It is owned by Ankole Coffee Producers Cooperative Union Ltd and certified by UCDA. It consists of different varieties such as: Robusta elite, Coffee wilt resistant varieties/clones and shade trees.
Contact Person: Jimmy Njoroge Kibinge. Country Director. Mob: +256 758 749 415. Email: jimmy@longmilescoffee.com.
Contact Person: Ritah Masika, Finance and Admin Manager. Mob: +256 781 465 735.
Established: 2021.
Founder: Ben Carlson.
Partnership with: Mt. Rwenzori Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union.
Networking Event: SCAA Expo and AFCA
Target market: USA, Sweden, UK and Australia.
Interests: Looking for opportunities to network with other coffee producers and institutions.
Description: Producers of coffee and buyers of red cherry which is processed through washing stations and prepared for export
Contact Person: Wafula Charles Yoramu, Farmer.
Established: 2000. Language: Luganda and Lusyamya. Description: Grows Robusta and Arabica coffee farming in about 2 acres. He sells his coffee to local field buyers that take it to milling factories in Nankoma, Bugiri.
Contact Person: Teddy Namaganda, AG. Executive Director and PA to Group CEO. Mob: +256 788 720 417. Email: tnamaganda@africacoffeeacademy.com.
Contact Person: Hellen Mirembe, Chief Operations Officer. Mob: +256 702 817 060. Email: hmirembe@africacoffeeacademy.com.
Facebook page: AfricaCoffeeACA.
Twitter handle: @AfricaCoffeeACA.
YouTube Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9UcWLF3I-c
Members to: Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF), Africa Fine Coffees Association (AFCA), Centre for Entrepreneurship and Executive Development (CEED)
Networking Event: AFCA Conferences.
Partners with: Great Lakes Coffee- Uganda, CBI- Netherlands, aBi Trust, Solidaridad, USAID, Hivos
Target market: Regional and International Coffee Value Chain Actors.
Interest: To widen ACA’s networks and increase its visibility to the entire coffee value chain actors to provide them with support for a Total Coffee Experience from the Garden up to the Cup through educating, training, and other high-value professional services.
Description: Africa Coffee Academy (ISO 9001; 2008) is an independent source of coffee knowledge consultancy, training, and direct services. At Africa Coffee Academy [ACA] Coffee is our business. ACA is a private sector-led initiative that aims at providing professional, business, and technical support to the coffee value chain to ensure compliance to ensure resilience and profitable coffee enterprises through organized training, research, coaching and mentoring, advisory and technical services in the entire value chain. ACA offers the following courses: Coffee Agronomy; Barista Course; Coffee Trading and Entrepreneurship; Coffee Sustainability; Coffee Quality Management; Training of trainers; Coffee Price Risk Management; SPS Management and Selling Skills Course.
ACA also provides private contract third party quality assurance services to coffee exporters and farmer associations that include Savannah Commodities Ltd, Kampala Domestic Stores Ltd, Star Cafe, Kyagalanyi Coffee and NUCAFE and international buyers including; TATA Coffee of India, CTCS (UK), Africa Tea & Coffee of Mombasa Kenya, Altimo and Supremo both of Belgium.
The Academy has built strategic linkages with the key players in the coffee value chain. ACA has also provided worked with smallholder producers from; the National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE), African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA); Ankole Coffee Producers Cooperative Union, Tororo based One Café, Budadiri Arabica Coffee Factory Ltd. (BACFL).
Contact: Kawacom Uganda Limited.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Coffee House,
Plot 35 Jinja Road,
P.O.Box 7267,Kampala, Uganda
Tel: (+256)-414-256940 / 312-260470
Fax: +256-414-256994
Email: info@ugandacoffee.go.ug