Description: Currently partnering with United States African Development Foundation (USADF) and Government of Uganda (GoU) in managing grantees in Uganda within coffee sub-sector
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: Baseka Boniface. Mob: +256 777 291 590, +256 792 687 543.
Contact Person: Basisa J, Chairperson. Mob: +256 705 214 095.
Description: Coffee producers
Contact Person: Gerald Mbabazi.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact person: Adinas Nyakiriri, Chairperson. Mob: +256 774 031 871.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery operator.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Telis Nicolaides, Managing Director. Email: andreas@greatlakescoffee.co.ug.
Description: Coffee processor and exporter
Contact Person: Cynthia, Operations Manager. Mob: +256 778 060 424, +256 709 729 818.
Contact Person: Joshua, Managing Partner. Mob: +256 701 236 138.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/red2roast
Description: coffee processor and exporter
Contact person: Rev. Robert Busiku, Chairperson. Mob: +256 775 489 251.
Description: Arabica coffee Nursery Operator
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.
GPS Coordinates: 0.34868, 32.68928.
Office Branch: Kabanyolo, Gayaza, Wakiso.
Email: curad.curad@gmail.com.
Contact Person: Apollo Ssegawa, Managing Director. Mob: +256 787 984 028. Email: asegawa@curadincubator.org
Description: CURAD hosts incubates who are involved in processing and roasting of the locally produced coffee.
GPS Coordinates: -0.26773, 31.64644.
Contact Person: Ssembajjwe Daniel, Treasurer Board. Mob: +256 782 520 839, +256 702 138 889.
Certification: Fairtrade.
Established: 1995.
Partners: UCDA, Solidaridad, Nordic Climate Facility (NCF), BTC Uganda, AgriTerra, USADF, UGACOF, UDB, UDET e.t.c.
Description: It consists of over 2,000 farmers that produce, process and sell natural Robusta coffee. It produces and packages roasted and ground coffee.
Contact Person: Ruhakana Winston.
Description: coffee processor and exporter.
Contact Person: Ndiwalana Geoffrey.
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
GPS Coordinates: -0.54193, 30.1488.
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.
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: 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.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact person: Nabukobe Robinah Catherine, Director.
Description: Arabica coffee nursery.
Contact person: Acidri Manasseh, Director.
Description: Robusta 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