Profile video: https://youtu.be/DDr4ejbkQcQ
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: Gerald Katabazi, CEO & Founder. Email: gkatabazi@gmail.com.
Description: Coffee processor, exporter and deals in handcrafted roasted beans, green bean sourcing and barista training in East Africa.
Contact Person: David Bishop Philip. Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Jamila Opondo.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Description: coffee growers, processors and exporters
Balton distributes and sells agrochemicals (fertilizer foliar nutrients, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides); irrigation kits and knapsack sprayers.
Contact Person: Mahrus Abdalla Salim.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
It distributes agrochemicals
GPS Coordinates: -0.54262, 30.14736.
Contact Person: Ashaba Umar, Chairman. Mob: +256 704 438 146, +256 788 731 705.
Contact Person: Sarah Nisiima, Manager.
Description: Buys, mills and sells Arabica and Robusta coffee from farmers and traders to exporters
Contact Person: Ponsianno Ssenyonyi, Chairman. Coffee farmers.
GPS Coordinates: 0.4499, 33.6904.
Contact Person: Moses Batibwe, Factory owner.
Established in: 2009. Member of: Busoga Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited. It buys, mills and sells Robusta coffee.
Contact Person: Kimbugwe Mohammed.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
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 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
GPS Coordinates (Sheema): -0.58168, 30.38865.
Collection Centre (Ishaka): -0.54254, 30.14845.
Profile Videos: https://youtu.be/lByYilLCe2Y
Contact Person: John Nuwagaba, Managing Director. Mob: +256 772 000 000.
Email: john.n@acpcultd.com, jmnuwa@yahoo.com.
Contact Person: Stanley Maniragaba, Operations Manager. Email: stanley.m@acpcultd.com.
Certifications: Fairtrade, USDA Organic, Rainforest Alliance and Carbon Neutral.
Standardization: ISO, HACCP.
Awards: Best of the Pearl Robust 2021, Top 100 Mid-Sized Companies in Uganda 2015/2016, Best Special Category 2018/2019.
Membership: Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA), Uganda Cooperative Alliance (UCA), Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF), Uganda Fairtrade Network (UFN).
Participate in Networking Events: African Fines Coffee Association Expo (AFCA), Specialty Coffee of Europe, BIOFACH trade fair
for organics food and Specialty Coffee Expo organized by Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) among other events.
Target market: Europe, Japan and North America.
Partners: aBi Development Ltd, United States African Development Foundation (USADF) and Rabobank.
Established in: 2006.
Description: ACPCU is a farmer-owned coffee cooperative union consisting of 20 primary cooperatives and over 8,200 members. It deals in coffee extension, procurement, processing and export of green beans. It is a certified fair trade exporter of specialty organic coffee. The cooperative was certified by CERES GmbH for processing and exporting coffee. It exports some of its coffee to Germany among other countries. It deals in both Arabica and Robusta coffee grown in South Western Uganda within areas of Bushenyi, Sheema, Ntungamo, Ibanda, Rubirizi and Mbarara. ACPCU has a capacity of selling over 200 containers annually. It runs a coffee nursery project to supply quality coffee seedlings to its farmers. ACPCU does different corporate social responsibility activities within the communities in health, finance, education, environment, energy and organic farming.
GPS Coordinates: -0.55352 30.20956.
Contact Person: Emmanuel Kweyunga, Farm owner.
Description: Grows over 5 acres of coffee intercropped with bananas, beans and pumpkin.
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.
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