Free Access | 2024-04-12

Uganda’s coffee product space

Authors/Editors: Swaibu Mbowa (PhD) ,  Florence Nakazi ,  Ezra F. Munyambonera

Abstract:

Two coffee varieties produced in the country (Robusta and Arabica), define two retrospective flow pathways from the farm to the market in Ugandan coffee value chain from (Figure 1). Robusta coffee is mainly dry processed, and value is added by hulling unprocessed coffee to ungraded Fair Average Quality clean Coffee (FAQ), and export of graded clean green Robusta coffee1. There are 433 primary processing factories located within the major Robusta coffee growing areas and about 36 export processing factories most of them operating at about 40% installed capacity. FAQ is sold to exporters by either farmers or owners of the primary processing factories (hullers).