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Finance Minister Matia Kasaijja penned the now controversial deal on behalf of government while Enrica Pinetti signed on behalf of UVCCL in February ....
Strategies farmers can adopt to sustain coffee production Saturday May 22 2021 Jacqueline Tukdel inspects her young coffee crop at Peya Village, Ongaco Sub-county, Omoro District. Photos | Michael J Ssali Summary Farmers are now paying more attention to good agronomic practices since they have formed groups in which members have set rules directed at producing a clean and marketable crop. Advertisement Last year Uganda registered a remarkable increase in coffee exports. Our June 2020 coffee export performance figures from the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) in the financial year 2019/2020 indicated that we set an all-time new record of 5.10 million 60-kilogramme bags. Export earnings also remarkably went up, bringing in $496m (Shs1.79 trillion). In the previous year, we exported 4.2 million 60 – kilogrammes bags, worth $415.1m. For a very long time, Uganda’s annual coffee production had stagnated at around 3 million 60-kg bags. ....