NEWS:Buganda kingdom kicks off the Buying of coffee from farmers at a better price

 

The kingdom of Buganda has started purchasing coffee from farmers in order to provide a market to farmers at a good price.

Buganda’s state minister for local government Joseph Kawuuki has written to all the county chiefs informing them of the development and urging them to mobilize farmers to sell their coffee to the kingdom’s company Mwanyi Terimba Limited.

The kingdom set up Mwanyi Terimba Limited in 2021, a company limited by shares to buy coffee from the farmers and to find a market for it externally.

This company whose warehouse is in Namanve industrial area, has kicked off its operations with the new the financial year 2022-2023 and is to purchase coffee from farmers and also add value to the produce, completing the value chain of coffee as spearheaded by BUCADEF.

Farmers in Uganda’s coffee-growing regions had recently been alarmed by the emergence of the controversial Uganda Vinci Coffee Company Limited (UVCCL), a privately owned firm, deployed by the government to have priority of buying Uganda’s coffee for export of coffee beans.