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Cocoa regulator in Ivory Coast puts halt to coops hoarding beans for sale at higher prices
ABIDJAN, May 21, 2024 – The Coffee and Cocoa Council [CCC] of Cote d’Ivoire has temporarily halted the operations of about 40 cooperatives suspected of unlawfully stockpiling cocoa beans to sell them…
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Young bee farmers form cooperative to boost honey business
LIRA, April 9, 2024 – In a bid to boost production of honey for the international market and generate more household incomes, the youth in the Lango and Acholi sub-regions have formed…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cocoa production in Ivory Coast expected to fall by 28.5 percent
ABIDJAN, October 27, 2023 – Cocoa shipments to ports in Ivory Coast are expected to fall by 28.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of the 2023/2024 season due to erratic weather…
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Agriculture
Western Uganda: Vanilla farmers decry falling prices, seek gov’t intervention
MBARARA – Vanilla farmers in Ibanda, Rubirizi, Kasese and Bundibugyo districts are crying foil over the drastic fall of prices for the once highly valued export in the country. Fabius Mwesigye, a…
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Africa
Africa’s coffee exports were 6.8 percent up in November 2022
KAMPALA-Exports of all forms of coffee from Africa increased by 6.8 percent to 1.09 million bags in November 2022 from 1.02mln bags in November 2021, the International Coffee Organisation [ICO] says in…
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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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Cooperatives & Communities
GIZ requested to sensitise farmers on storage and strengthening cooperatives
The National Agricultural Research and Development Organization has appealed to GIZ [Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit] and partner organisations to train farmers in post-harvest handling, storage, modern farming methods, and strengthen cooperatives.…
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