Contact Person: Ssenyonga Emmanuel.
Description: Coffee growers, processors and exporters
GPS Coordinates: 0.3504, 32.6641.
Contact Person: Sabiiti Bernard, Director.
Contact Person: Triumph Nimbareeba, Exports Manager and Logistics. Mob: +256 774 850 847, +256 704 300 697. Email: triumphbesmarkcoffee@gmail.com.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter
GPS Coordinates: 1.05342, 34.34892. Contact Person: Samuel Wakinya, Chairperson. Mob: +256 778 097 293, +256 751 533 313. Email: wakinyasam@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Wamboka Abner Shadrach. Mob: +256 779 329 517.
Founded in: May, 2010 by ten primary cooperatives.
Certification: Fairtrade. Partners: Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) and United States African Development Foundation (USADF).
Interest: networking with other coffee stakeholders for better markets.
Description: Bushika is on the secondary level cooperative of farmers growing Arabic coffee in the highland on the slopes of Mt. Elgon at 1,500 to 2000 meters above sea level. Its coffee has a cupping score of 80 to 86. They produce different coffee varieties (SL 14 and SL 25).
Contact: Sucafina Uganda.
Web: https://sucafina.com/na/news/uganda-harvest-update.
Description: Coffee processors and exporters.
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.
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: Christoph Hamm and Stephan Katongole.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Description: research development organization within agricultural sector including coffee.
Description: FAO works with different stakeholders to promote cocoa and coffee value chains in Uganda.
Contact: East & Central Africa office, Kenya.
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: 0.21469, 32.43611.
Contact Person: Buule Ronald, Executive Director. Mob: +256 772 929 680. Email: ronald.buule@cecofa.org.
Contact Person: Vivian Namata, Human Resource Administrator. Mob: +256 703 806 194. Email: nv@cecofa.org.
Certifications: Fairtrade, 4C Association and Rainforest Alliance.
Networking Events: SCAA, AFCA and SCAE.
Partners: United States African Development Foundation (USADF) and Uganda Development Trust (UDET).
Interest: increase visibility of their farmers’ coffee to more markets.
Description: CECOFA was established in 2017 and it buys Robusta coffee from farmers in the different areas (Wakiso, Masaka, Bukuya and Luweero) which is sold to different markets. The company offers training on the best agricultural practices, post-harvesting handling, gender training and sessions on climatic changes in
Agriculture.
Contact person: Acidri Manasseh, Director.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator.
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: Ndiwalana Geoffrey.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Ndebesa Fred.
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.
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.
Contact Person: Richard A. Mob: +256 782 399 000.
Description: Arabica and Robusta coffee nursery
GPS Coordinates: 0.34941, 32.68284.
Contact: Volcafe Group (Kyagalanyi Coffee).
Certifications: Rainforest Alliance, UTZ, 4C Association, IQNet Management system, ISO 9001:2008 e.t.c.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter. It is a member of Volcafe coffee group.
GPS Coordinates: -0.54303, 30.14819.
Contact Person: Arinaitwe Denis, manager, Ishaka. Mob: +256 772 199 362.
Contact Person: Misege David, Supervisor. Mob: +256 782 411 518.
Established in: 1999.
Description: Buys Robusta and Arabica coffee from farmers and traders, mills and sell buyers and exporters.
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