Contact Person: Mugenyi Musenze Robert, Ssenkulu (C.E.O). Mob: +256 752 612 516.
Contact Person: Sarah Nansubuga, Finance and Administration Officer. Mob: +256 703 642 480.
Twitter: @bucadef
Facebook: @bucadef
YouTube: BUCADEF
Product Brand: Emmwanyi Yaffe
Established in: 1997
Membership: Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU), Uganda Small and Medium Enterprises Association (USSMEA), Uganda Association
of Private Vocational Institutions (UGAPRIVI) and Uganda Larges Scale Farmers Association (ULFA) among others.
Partnership with: Ministry of Water and Environment, Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industries and Fisheries and Private Sector Foundation Uganda.
Networking Events: Uganda Coffee Day, Uganda Coffee Breakfasts, National Coffee Steering Committees and Uganda Trade Portal Development.
Interests: Access global market and increase visibility of the locally produced coffee and cocoa in Uganda.
Description: Through the Mmwanyi Terimba Programme, BUCADEF has been able to increase coffee production in the 26 Buganda Region Districts to 35% in 7 years. Cocoa has not been vibrant, however, now that the cocoa sector is getting amalgamated with UCDA, BUCADEF is also strategizing to get the cocoa producers publicized. BUCADEF is collaborating with selected Kiboko mills to bulk and process organized farmers’ coffee for value addition. BUCADEF is also into specialty coffee market, currently BUCADEF has groups of farmers wet-processing their coffee to meet the demands of specialty coffee market. The coffee that BUCADEF collects from the farmers is graded and marketed for its quantity and quality. BUCADEF has also ventured into roasting and has introduced Emmwanyi Yaffe coffee brand on the market to meet the growing demand of roast and ground coffee as well as to promote domestic coffee consumption.
Literature on how to grow cocoa in Uganda (Webpage: https://naads.or.ug/crop/seeds/cocoa/).
Contact Person: Samuel N. Kamau, Executive Director.
Contact Person: Kenneth M. Barigye, Uganda Chapter Chair.
Description: research development organization within agricultural sector including coffee.
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).
Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA) Ltd is an umbrella organization for all cooperatives in Uganda established in 1961. It serves as the voice of the cooperative movement at both national and international level with a mandate to recommend to government on matters of policy relating to cooperatives arbitration (settlement of disputes) advocate.
Contact Person: Doreen Rweihangwe, President. Email: doreen.rweihangwe@ugandacoffee.co.ug
Contact Person: Rebecca Kisolo, Vice President. Email: rebeccakisolo@gmail.com.
Description: empowers women to participate in the coffee production chain so as to increase their household incomes and improve their livelihoods
Description: Coffee processors, roasters and exporters.
Contact Person: Charles K. Kato, Regional Representative.
Mob: +256 772 918 282.
Description: official partners for Delta Technology Corporation- USA that deals in color sorting equipment for coffee, rice, cereals, sim sim, seeds, nuts, pulses e.t.c. and Kaeser-Germany that supplies air compressors.
Contact: Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
Description: Coffee processors and exporters.
Contact Person: George William Kanooya.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
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: Cynthia, Operations Manager. Mob: +256 778 060 424, +256 709 729 818.
Contact Person: Joshua, Managing Partner. Mob: +256 701 236 138.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/red2roast
Description: coffee processor and exporter
It distributes agrochemicals
Contact Person: Brian Sengendo.
Deals in soil sampling, analysis and testing for better production of crops including coffee; outsourcing services for managing coffee farms among other crops.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Jeffrey Steinberg. Email: info@latitudetrade.co.
Established: 2016.
Certification: Certified B Corporation, Organic Certification (US NOP and EU).
Description: Latitude is a social enterprise in Uganda producing and exporting specialty cocoa, bean to bar chocolate and cocoa derivatives. The company works with over 5000 certified organic cocoa farmers in Uganda to provide training and a stable market for wet cacao purchased directly from registered farmers at rural village collection points. Latitude operates central fermentation and drying facilities for the production of fully traceable specialty cocoa from several regions of Uganda, supplying chocolate companies in the US, EU and Asia markets. Latitude also produces its own bean to bar chocolate brand (Latitude Craft Chocolate), cocoa powder and cocoa butter at its factories in Kampala for sale in East Africa, US, EU and Japan markets.
Contact Person: Anold Ananura.
GPS Coordinates: 0.3216, 32.61279.
Established: 2019.
Description: Deals in manufacturing calcium carbonate powder which is used in making fertilizers, soil sweeteners and dolomitic agricultural lime for green healthier coffee plants.
Contact person: Kizito A., Chairperson.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator
Elgon Roast are the producers of the best locally roasted and ground Arabica coffee in Uganda. Our products are certified for quality by the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS), and include 15g sachets, 50g and 150g bags. Quantities beyond that are made on special order. We also provide roasting services.
We aim to supply high-quality 100% Bugisu Washed Arabica Coffee products that come from our family farm and small neighborhood out growers where we guarantee high-quality Arabica coffee beans.
We are a young and growing company with a big vision to market our brand on both the local and international markets.
Twitter: @machericoffee
Contact Person: Project Manager. Mob: +256 782 700 010.
Contact Person: Claire Mbambu, Administrator. Mob: +256 774 138 451.
Description: The aim of this project is to develop a vibrant and sustainable cocoa value chain in Bundibugyo district. It is a partnership between the Government of Uganda and the European Union through MARKUP initiative focused at addressing obstacles and challenges experienced in the cocoa value chain in relation to reduced production and productivity, harvest and post-harvest losses, market access and diversification into higher export markets for smallholders. The project will enhance market access to EU and other Africa Caribbean and Pacific countries by supporting private operators in the cocoa value chains to improve quality and quantity of the produce and retain premium prices for the same through niche export markets.
Contact Person: Maniraguha Emmanuel, Chairman. Mob: +256 752 439 245.
Contact Person: Costantine Bwambale, Chairman. Mob: +256 772 482 248.
Contact Person: Tantine Masika, Secretary. Mob: +256 779 777 252.
Established: 2001.
Partners: Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU).
Description: Association that deals in cocoa nursery seedlings, agro-inputs and seek markets for its members. Its aim is to improve the quality of cocoa being produced and increase the production and export volumes of cocoa from Uganda.
Contact Person: Nick Moss, Operations Manager. Mob: +256 752 755 069. Email: nick@escouganda.com.
Contact Person: Nick Francis. Mob: +256 772 855 266.
Established in: 1955 (but closed and crossed to DRC) and resumed in Uganda in 1970s.
Certifications: Fairtrade, EOS and NOP
Target market: UK and USA.
Interest: To increase visibility locally and internationally among the cocoa stakeholders and be part strong partners for the government as Uganda establishes policies for the sub-sector.
Description: Buyers and exporters of cocoa, moringa, vanilla and chillies.
Contact Person: Stephen Sembuya Magulu, CEO.
Description: the company produces locally made chocolates. It was formerly called Pink Foods Industries Ltd.
In News: [Uganda chocolate company taps into growing regional demand with cheaper pricing]
Ugandan chocolate company taps into growing regional demand with cheaper pricing
Contact Person: Jeffrey Steinberg. Email: info@latitudetrade.co.
Established: 2016.
Certification: Certified B Corporation, Organic Certification (US NOP and EU).
Description: Latitude is a social enterprise in Uganda producing and exporting specialty cocoa, bean to bar chocolate and cocoa derivatives. The company works with over 5000 certified organic cocoa farmers in Uganda to provide training and a stable market for wet cacao purchased directly from registered farmers at rural village collection points. Latitude operates central fermentation and drying facilities for the production of fully traceable specialty cocoa from several regions of Uganda, supplying chocolate companies in the US, EU and Asia markets. Latitude also produces its own bean to bar chocolate brand (Latitude Craft Chocolate), cocoa powder and cocoa butter at its factories in Kampala for sale in East Africa, US, EU and Japan markets.
Description: ICAM owns a centre in Bundibugyo for cocoa collection, according to the most modern processing technique standards. It supports farmers with training in the latest farming know-how. Cocoa beans are processed to produce craft chocolates which are consumed locally and exported.
Contact Person: Gustav Gonget, Managing Director. Mob: +256 783 480 124. Email: ggonget@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Barbara Gonget, Administrator. Mob: +256 772 446 433. Email: barbaragonget@gmail.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/equatorchocolate.
Established in: 2018.
Founders: Gustav and Barbara Gonget.
Description: Equator Chocolate is among the first companies to add value to the locally grown cocoa beans to produce high quality chocolate for local and export purposes. The team aims at increasing visibility of the product brand; substitute imported chocolates in the country and increase export of locally finished products from Uganda. The firm currently participates in some MARKUP Project activities and events
Description: locally made chocolate.
Contact Person: Geofrey Arinaitwe. Mob: +256 786 290 279. Email: aggarinaitwe@gmail.com.
Description: Established in 2018 and it processes coffee and cocoa AveniaGlo cosmetics and Gorumet Deluxe chocolates.
Contact Person: Maniraguha Emmanuel, Managing Director. Mob: +256 772 439 245, +256 752 439 245.
Membership: Uganda Cocoa Development Association.
Target market: Cocoa exporters.
Interest: To network with other cocoa stakeholders and establish a cocoa association across the country.
Description: Buys cocoa beans from farmers and field traders, dry them, grade, ferment, sort (primary processing) and sell to large international buyers and exporters
Contact Person: Muhindo Raunale, Director. Mob: +256 778 364 033. Email: gbaluku1988@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Geoffrey Baluku, Assistant Manager. Mob: +256 778 267 472.
Established in: 2019.
Description: Traders (buys and sells) dry cocoa beans. The company buys cocoa beans, dries it and ferments it and then sells it to local buyers that have large stores. Farmers are paid depending on the sunshine type (1, 2 and 3). It also deals in vanilla.
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
