Description: Coffee processor and exporter
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: Leopold Mumbere, Regional Coffee and Cocoa Director in East Africa. Mob: +243990 956 184. Email: leopold.mumbere@rikolto.org
Contact Person: Stan Lietaer, Coffee and Cocoa Business Development (Uganda). Email: stan.lietaer@rikolto.org.
Established in: 1958 under the name “Vredeseilenanden” in Belgium and since 1995 in Uganda under the name “VECO”.
Award: VUFO’s Certificate of Merit in 2021 (https://vietnam.rikolto.org/en/news/rikolto-awarded-vufos-certificate-merit-2021)
Membership: Beyond Chocolate.
Partnership: Belgian Government, European Union, NAAC, AMEA, SHONA, DOEN foundation, Kyaninga Forest Foundation, SWT e.t.c.
Target beneficiaries: Smallholder coffee and cocoa farmers in Western Uganda (Albertine rift area).
Interest: To link up with all the relevant actors in coffee and cocoa, to see what is possible to contribute to sustainable growth in both value chains.
Description: Rikolto is an International NGO supporting smallholder farmers in different agricultural value chains, including coffee and cocoa. In the region, we have experience in both crops in DRC, and are looking to start up activities in Uganda. Rikolto uses a holistic agroforestry approach, making the smallholder farmer a valuable and resilient part of the value chain. We strengthen their linkage to markets and financial services, while applying Inclusive Business principles. Resilience requires a focus on food security, climate change mitigation and financial literacy.
Description: Robusta coffee, growers and processors.
Description: aBi finance various activities along the coffee value chain in Uganda
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: Senjovu Dan, Director. Mob: +256 701 930 716.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery.
Contact Person: Lubega Wavamuno, Business Manager. Description: coffee growers.
GPS Coordinates: 0.31637, 32.61733.
Contact Person: Peter Zzabasajja, Head Machinery Sales.
Mob: +256 772 602 273. Email: rbtayume@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Okuyo Nel Hillel, Technical Sales.
Mob: +256 773 087 252. Email: asdtechnical.uganda@brazafricgroup.com.
Offices in: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Mozambique and Uganda.
Description: BrazAfric was established in 1996. It is one of the largest suppliers of coffee processing equipment within Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania from primary processing to drying, milling, color sorting, roasting and packaging. Equipment include: portable coffee moisture testers; shade nets for coffee nurseries; manual sprayers; shears and saws for pruning coffee; machetes; digital weighing scales; weighing bridges; semi-automatic scales; irrigation systems; spittoons for coffee cup testing; sample trays, spoon, sieve, cups for coffee samples in laboratory; coffee sample huller; coffee sample grinder; coffee sample roaster; bag stitching machine with conveyer; and electronic color sorters for detecting defective coffee beans among other equipment. BrazAfric also runs coffee related projects to solve clients’ problems.
Contact Person: C A Adinaravana Balcha.
Description: coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Kimbugwe Mohammed.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Location: Kijaria village, Nyambiri parish, Kuluba sub-county, Koboko.
Contact person: Ayiko Rodies, Director. Mob: +256 705 063 991.
Description: Robusta Coffee Nursery Operator.
Contact Person: Amos Kasigi, Chairperson.
GPS Coordinates: -0.54164, 30.14822.
Contact Person: Bahati Yassin, Director.
Contact Person: Matovu Hussein, Manager. Mob: +256 784 421 717, +256 757 050 995. Email: husseinmatovu@gmail.com.
Established in: 2018.
Interest: connect with more exporters.
Description: buys and bulks Robusta and Arabic coffee from farmers and traders, mills coffee and sells it to buyers who are exporters.
Contact Person: Jesse Wasolo.
Description: The firm initiated in 2020 and it offers ecological soil and plant solutions especially to coffee farmers. It is interested in networking and partnership to widen its market beyond eastern Uganda.
Contact Person: Andrew Wakabi, Business Development. Mob: +256 756 232 529. Email: Andrew.Wakabi@cevalogistics.com.
Description: clearing & forwarding.
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.
Contact person: Mugisha Dan. Mob: +256 776 844 654.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact person: Coasta M., Chairperson. Mob: +256 782 234 401.
Description: Arabica 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