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: 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.
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: 0.31163, 32.77396.
Description: It is a coffee and tree nursery consisting of coffee cuttings and clones (KR1-KR10), cocoa seedlings, Eucalyptus and other fruit seedlings.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery
Contact Person: Hannington Karuhanga R.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
GPS Coordinates: -0.54222, 30.14817.
Contact Person: Baguma. Mob: +256 771 902 754.
Established in: 1999.
Description: Factory buys Arabica and Robusta coffee from small millers in the villages and the traders, mills
Growing and processing of coffee,cafe roasting
Contact Person: Benyam Haile Hirus.
Description: coffee processor and exporter
Contact person: Acidri Manasseh, Director.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery operator.
Description: Coffee and cocoa processors and exporters.
Description: Robusta Coffee plantation owned by Uganda Tea Corporation
Contact Person: Abdel Rahim Gabriel and Muhamad Adam Jabriel.
Description: coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Atukunda Gerald.
Email: info@gishacoffee.com.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact Person: Charles Dribia, Nursery Operator. Mob: +256 782 380 212.
Description: Robusta coffee nursery.
GPS Coordinates: 0.41057, 32.01341.
Contact Person: Mutebi Isaac, Director.
Description: Primary coffee processor
GPS Coordinates: -0.54284, 30.14831.
Contact Person: Abel Bangumya, Managing Director.
Description: Coffee processors and buyers
Contact person: Jonathan Siwa, Chairperson. Mob: +256 753 663 794.
Description: Arabica Coffee Nursery Operator
Description: coffee processor and exporter
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