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Contact Person: Baluku Paineto, Managing Director.
Established: 1999.
Description: BJCU produces, processes and exports organic fully washed Arabica coffee from Rwenzori mountains. Its coffee is branded as “Owemba” which is grown at elevation of 1,400 to 2,200 meters above the sea level. The cooperative consists of over 5,500 members who grow and mill fair trade organic certified washed Arabica coffee. It consists of certifications provided by FLO, EU and NOP Organic. It processes coffee through micro-washing stations and dry it on raised beds under cover. The coffee harvest season is September to December for main season and from February to May for fly harvests. Its annual production is about 15 to 22 containers.
Contact Person: Emmanuel Iyamulemye Niyibigira, Managing Director. Email: emmanuel.iyamulemye@ugandacoffee.go.ug.
Description: The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) is a government agency responsible for regulating all “on” and “off” coffee farm activities. UCDA’s mission is to facilitate increase in quality coffee production, productivity, and consumption. The agency is also responsible for providing license to businesses that export coffee out of Uganda among other activities.
Contact Person: Kaggwa R., Managing Director. Mob: +256 772 628 966.
Contact Person: Father Christopher Nuwahereza. Mob: +256 773 786 170.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Description: Robusta coffee, growers and processors.
Description: FAO works with different stakeholders to promote cocoa and coffee value chains in Uganda.
Contact person: Robert Nuwagaba, Director. Mob: +256 784 634 430.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery
Contact Person: Owen Mugabe. Mob: +256 752 979 180, +256 779 425 789.
Contact Person: Samuel. Mob: +256 705 628 532.
Description: Coffee millers and traders.
GPS Coordinates: -0.26773, 31.64644.
Contact Person: Ssembajjwe Daniel, Treasurer Board. Mob: +256 782 520 839, +256 702 138 889.
Certification: Fairtrade.
Established: 1995.
Partners: UCDA, Solidaridad, Nordic Climate Facility (NCF), BTC Uganda, AgriTerra, USADF, UGACOF, UDB, UDET e.t.c.
Description: It consists of over 2,000 farmers that produce, process and sell natural Robusta coffee. It produces and packages roasted and ground coffee.
Contact Person: Wambede Ibrahim.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
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.
Contact Person: Allons Ampereza.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
It distributes agrochemicals
Contact person: Samuel Obulaka, Chairperson. Mob: +256 772 512 051.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator.
Contact Person: Ysakor Hailesselassie Hailu, Country Representative. Mob: +256 756 080 402. Email: selassie@agriterra.org.
Contact Person: Jasper Spikker, Regional Manager. Email: uganda@agriterra.org.
Established: in 1997 by the Dutch farmer organizations like ZLTO, LTO, NCR among others.
Partners: Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA) and Ministry of Trade Industry and Cooperatives (MTIC).
Networking events: Harvest Money Expo.
Target market: Cooperatives
Interest: To network with development partners
Description: Agriterra is an Agri agency that provides high quality hands-on advice, training and exchange services to cooperatives and farmer organizations with an aim to improve the socio-economic conditions of the people in the rural areas.
GPS Coordinates: 0.31479, 32.59103.
Contact Person: Joseph Nkandu, Executive Director. Mob: +256 772 595 030. Email: joseph.nkandu@nucafe.org
Contact Person: Nuwagaba Deus, Deputy Executive Director and Operations Management. Mob: +256 774 300 628, +256 706 717 260. Email: deus.nuwagaba@nucafe.org.
Description: NUCAFE is an umbrella national coffee farmers’ organization founded in 2003 as a successor of the Uganda Coffee Farmer’s Association (UCFA). NUCAFE has grown and evolved as a vibrant private sector led farmer organization formed to serve and position farmers well in the liberalized coffee value chain in Uganda
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: George William Kanooya.
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