Uganda coffee exports surge

Nov 14, 2010

UGANDA expects to export 250,000 60-kg bags of coffee in November this year, up 6.% against the same month in 2009 after good weather increased bean production, the country said on Friday.

UGANDA expects to export 250,000 60-kg bags of coffee in November this year, up 6.% against the same month in 2009 after good weather increased bean production, the country said on Friday.

“We’ve had good weather in the latter part of this year and the beans in most of the areas which are in the middle of the season developed well,” a source at Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said.

“So certainly the harvest has been good in the last several weeks and we think it will be a good month for exporters.” Uganda’s 2009/10 (Oct-Sep) annual exports plummeted 13%, reflecting the impact of last year’s drought and a large stock build-up by exporters who are delaying shipments in anticipation of better prices in the 2010/11 season.

It exported a total of 2.67 million bags of coffee in the year, fetching $267.2m compared with 2008/09 season’s 3.06 million bags that earned $291.3m.

Reporting by Elias Birayabarema, Editing by George Obulutsa)



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