Contact Person: Muligi Ntambi Emmanuel (Ssalongo), Chairman. Description: coffee growers.
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: East & Central Africa office, Kenya.
Contact Person: Masa Charles Frank.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
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: 0.25744, 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.
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
GPS Coordinates: 0.24003, 32.92559.
Contact Person: Adam, Manager. Mob: +256 759 936 015.
Contact Person: Muwonge David.
Description: This was formerly called Zibul’Atudde Coffee farmer cooperative. It deals in Robusta coffee growing. It uses wet method for primary processing of the coffee.
Contact Person: Farid Meghani.
Email: inquiries@pearlofafricafarmug.com.
Description: coffee processors and exporters.
Contact person: Nanukunda Doreen, Director. Mob: +256 774 286 306.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery
Contact Person: Kamuli Sylvester Seth.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Wambede Ibrahim.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Tumukunde Frandan, Director. Mob: +256 758 411 879, +256 776 054 844. Email: tumukundefrandan@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Aggrey Tumuheirwe, Operations. Email: aggreytumuheirwe@gmail.com. Mob: +256 758 954 500.
Contact Person: Cathy. Mob: +256 787 180 304.
Contact Person: William K. Mob: +256 772 970 334.
Description: The company supports roasters to find the right coffee for any quality or budget, micro-lot to macro-lot. It works with six cooperatives in western Uganda consisting of over 1,000 farmers. Farmers are provided with beehives and education services as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility strategy.
Contact Person: Kenneth Barigye, Managing Director. Email: kbarigye@mountainharvest.com.
Contact Person: Nico Herr, Coffee Quality and Marketing Manager.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZudiHiIO5L7riKxHJbuJRg
Established in: 2017.
Certifications: USDA Organic
Awards: Best of the Pearl Winners in Natural, Honey and Washed years 2021 and 2022
Membership: Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), International Women’s Coffee Association (IWCA), African Fines Coffees Association (AFCA) and Uganda Coffee Federation (UCF).
Participate in Networking Events: SCA Expo, World of Coffee, Roasters Guild Retreat and Golden Bean among other events.
Target market: Specialty coffee buyers interested in intriguing coffee profiles that have impact.
Description: Our vision is bold and so is our approach. Mountain Harvest is driven by the belief that what tastes best in your cup can and should provide a living income for farmers and be sustainable for the environment. To achieve this, we must deliver quality coffee for quality impact. High on the slopes of Uganda’s fertile mountains, Mountain Harvest is working side-by-side with farmers to produce the country’s best Arabica coffee “coffee that not only tastes great, but fuels a higher quality of life for farmers, their families, and the soil beneath their feet”. Mountain Harvest buys coffee from farmer cooperatives for export purposes.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact: Neumann Kaffee Gruppe.
Description: Coffee processors and exporters.
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: Acidri Manasseh, Director.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator.
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