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.
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: Brian Sengendo.
Deals in soil sampling, analysis and testing for better production of crops including coffee; outsourcing services for managing coffee farms among other crops.
Contact Person: Executive Director.
Contact person: Walter Okello. Mob: +256 772 595 705.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator.
Contact Person: Sabit Asholi.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
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: Mahrus Abdalla Salim.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
GPS Coordinates: 0.17272, 30.08108. Other districts: Bundibugyo, Kampala.
Contact Person: Bwambale Constantine, Director. Mob: +256 772 482 248.
Contact Person: Muhimbi Fred Kule, Administrative Cashier. Mob: +256 787 504 388. Email: fmuhimbi@gmail.com
Established in: 1994.
Member of: Uganda Cocoa Exporters Association and Uganda Manufacturers Association.
Interest: To access international markets.
Description: Buyers and exporters of cocoa, coffee, rice and papain
Balton distributes and sells agrochemicals (fertilizer foliar nutrients, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and insecticides); irrigation kits and knapsack sprayers.
GPS Coordinates: 0.41057, 32.01341.
Contact Person: Mutebi Isaac, Director.
Description: Primary coffee processor
Contact person: Coasta M., Chairperson. Mob: +256 782 234 401.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator.
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.
Contact Person: Niwahebwa Nelson, Managing Director.
Established: 1958. It deals in coffee exporting, processing, grading and marketing
Contact Person: Christoph Hamm and Stephan Katongole.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact person: Adinas Nyakiriri, Chairperson. Mob: +256 774 031 871.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator.
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: Nyamutale Charles, Director. Mob: +256 772 470 927.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator
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
Contact Person: Robert Kavuma and Phoebe Kisibo.
Established in: 2017. Description: Coffee farmers.
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