Coffee
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Cooperatives & Communities
Global coffee exports decline in April 2022
KAMPALA– Global exports of green beans in April 2022 totalled 9.86 million bags, compared with 10.16mln bags in the same month of the previous year, according to International Coffee Organization [ICO]. ICO…
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Uganda, DR Congo hold business summit to boost business
KAMPALA- In an initiative to open up the business relationship between Uganda and DR Congo, the business community in the two neighboring countries have organised a series of business summits to strengthen…
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AU minsters’ summit declares coffee a strategic commodity
KAMPALA – The Summit of African Union Ministers sitting in Nairobi days ago certified coffee as a key strategic commodity for the poorest yet resource-rich continent. The development would require trading in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni roots for 4-acre farming approach to boost household incomes
OMORO– President Museveni is rooting for small-scale commercial farming approach in order to boost household incomes in northern Uganda. This comes at a time when the Acholi Sub-region, according to a survey…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kenya to host first Africa coffee summit this week
NAIROBI– Kenya will host the first G25 African Coffee Summit from May 25-27, 2022. The country was granted the opportunity during the Inter African Coffee Organization [IACO] 61st Annual General Assembly which…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lack of tea policy affecting Uganda’s farmers
FORT PORTAL– Tea is Uganda’s third most important agricultural export earner after coffee and fish, but tea farmers say they need a policy to regulate the sector. It is one of the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
BKCU grappling with debts ahead of next AGM
MBARARA– Preparations are in high gear as the debt-ridden Banyankole Kweterana Cooperative Union [BKCU] Limited prepares to hold its 49th Annual General Meeting [ AGM ] this Friday, over three weeks from the…
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UVCCL coffee deal: Investors want to mortgage govt land at Namanve
KAMPALA– Even though President Yoweri Museveni and NRM caucus Members of Parliament [MPs] have agreed to review the controversial coffee export deal signed between the government and Vinci Coffee Company Limited [UVCCL], the…
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Shocking: Italian Enrica Pinetti signed Shs284b coffee deal as witness
KAMPALA – It has emerged that Italian Enrica Pinetti in February 2022 only signed as a witness as the Government of Uganda inked Shs 284 billion controversial coffee agreement with Uganda Vinci Coffee…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Ugandans roast PS Ggoobi on Twitter over controversial coffee deal
MBALE – On April 15, 2022, at 9: 06 am, Finance ministry Permanent Secretary [PS] /Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, in a lengthy explanation, twitted, “Dear Ugandans, I am minded to…
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