Description: supports coffee and cocoa value chain farmers in Uganda in partnership with Rwenzori Farmers’ Cooperative Union (RFCU).
Contact Person: Project Manager. Mob: +256 782 700 010.
Contact Person: Claire Mbambu, Administrator. Mob: +256 774 138 451.
Description: The aim of this project is to develop a vibrant and sustainable cocoa value chain in Bundibugyo district. It is a partnership between the Government of Uganda and the European Union through MARKUP initiative focused at addressing obstacles and challenges experienced in the cocoa value chain in relation to reduced production and productivity, harvest and post-harvest losses, market access and diversification into higher export markets for smallholders. The project will enhance market access to EU and other Africa Caribbean and Pacific countries by supporting private operators in the cocoa value chains to improve quality and quantity of the produce and retain premium prices for the same through niche export markets.
Contact person: Mugabi Christopher, Nursery Owner.
Description: Arabica and clonal coffee nursery.
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: Ponsianno Ssenyonyi, Chairman. Coffee farmers.
Literature on how to grow cocoa in Uganda (Webpage: https://naads.or.ug/crop/seeds/cocoa/).
Contact Person: Niwahebwa Nelson, Managing Director.
Established: 1958. It deals in coffee exporting, processing, grading and marketing
Contact Person: Nakalagwa Phaima.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Amos Kasigi, Chairperson.
Contact person: Edson Kushaba, Director. Mob: +256 779 934 133.
Description: Coffee nursery.
GPS Coordinates: 1.0111, 34.41734.
Contact Person: Muyama Florence Wakooba, Chairperson.
Established: 2003. Description: A legally registered CBO farmer cooperative that grows Arabic coffee consisting of 250 member farmers. It currently sells most of its coffee to Endiro Coffee which supports them with trainings and equipment.
Contact Person: Dr. Ian Thomas John Clarke, Founder.
Partners: Pearl Capital Partners, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), UGACOF, IFDC e.t.c.
Description: Clarke Farm is a 1,500acre farm located in Katambale, Kyarusozi Kyenjojo district in Uganda. Approximately half the farm is planted in Robusta coffee. The farm consists of The Coffee Lodge for tourism purposes. It also processes, roasts and packages coffee for both local consumption and export purposes.
Contact Person: Ivan Muhumuza, Chairperson.
Established: 2019.
Description: The group was founded by coffee farmers in Kyamasamba village. It deals in growing coffee, drying coffee beans and selling it to traders in form of kiboko.
Description: ICAM owns a centre in Bundibugyo for cocoa collection, according to the most modern processing technique standards. It supports farmers with training in the latest farming know-how. Cocoa beans are processed to produce craft chocolates which are consumed locally and exported.
Contact Person: Kagga Badru, Board Secretary. Description: Robusta coffee growers.
Contact person: Richard K., Manager operator. Mob: +256 786 905 314.
Contact person: JohnBosco Kaliisa, Director. Mob: +256 772 658 709.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator.
Contact Person: Kamuli Sylvester Seth.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Patrick Tibasiimwa, Owner. Email: ptibasiimwa@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Bahati Robert. Mob: +256 781 377 004.
Description: Since 2010, the farmer owns a Robusta coffee plantation and sells it to nearby coffee milling factories. His interest is to network with other farmers and learn how to form a farmers’ group that can benefit from government and other development coffee programs
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