Coffee
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Development
Africa’s exports fell 11.9 percent in August 2022, Uganda is the reason why
KAMPALA-Exports of all forms of coffee from Africa dropped by 11.9 percent to 1.24 million bags in August 2022 from 1.4mln bags sold in August 2021, according to International Coffee Organisation [ICO],…
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Development
BCU to arrest members over failure to pay back loans
NAMISINDWA-Bugisu Cooperative Union [ BCU ] chairman Nathan Nandala Mafabi has told cooperative societies members who have failed to pay back the loans acquired from the union that they will be arrested…
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Cooperatives & Communities
BCU mobilises coffee farmers, offers cheap loans
MBALE-Bugisu Co-operative Union [ BCU ] is engaged in zonal mobilisation meetings with coffee farmers in Bugisu Sub-region as one of the measures to increase the supply of green coffee to the…
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Development
Trust takes tree growing campaign to Masindi schools
MASINDI-As one way of inculcating the culture of conserving the environment amongst citizens, Umoja Conservation Trust [UCT]has embarked on its campaign to plant trees in schools in Masindi district. Brian Toshi Bwana,…
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News
Uganda’s coffee exports plummet 29 percent in August due to drought
KAMPALA– Uganda’s coffee sub-sector regulator, Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] reported that the country’s coffee exports fell 28.5 percent year-on-year in August due to a drought that damaged crops in some regions…
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News
Local coffee exporter KDS now wants youth as industry game-changers
Kampala Domestic Stores Limited (KDS), one of Uganda’s largest indigenous coffee exporters, said they want to skill youth within central Uganda and get them involved in the coffee value chain as a…
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East Africa
Congolese co-op promotes peace through prosperity
KIVU- The Congolese province of South Kivu has a dangerous past—and a complicated present. Lake Kivu, the lake that gives the province its name divides the DRC from neighboring Rwanda to the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mixed reactions as MPs assess Masindi ACDP activities
MASINDI– MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture headed by Abim district Woman MP Janet Okorimoi visited two cooperatives this week to assess the activities being implemented by selected cooperatives under the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Global coffee exports down 8.8 percent in July 2022
KAMPALA– Global exports of green beans in July 2022 were 9.04 million bags, compared with 9.91mln bags in the same month of the previous year, which is down 8.8 percent, according to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Coffee farming: Amuru district official urges farmers to form associations
AMURU– Amuru district agricultural office is rallying coffee farmers in the district to form associations, saying they would help in the economic transformation of the farmers’ households. Currently, the district has about…
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