Coffee farming in Africa is being overtaken by the
need for real estate
more and more people
are uprooting their trees to
build residential apartments.
With the
growing demand for
urban and semi urban living coffee
farmers tired of meager earnings
from bonuses are opting out of the trade.
In my view it is solely because farmers have left the whole coffee
value chains to the hands of
companies, and cooperatives who are
supposed to collect the berries in bulk
fetching better prices.
The outcome is that more people do not get the
value of their investments and end up getting mere peanuts for bonuses at the end of the year.
Uganda however is taking a better
approach to this challenge with the launch of an agribusiness incubator focused
on the coffee value chain.
Not only will this help farmers learn how to add value to
their berries they will also
be equipped with entrepreneurship skills to better understand market demands.
The country provider popular Robusta beans, used in French
and Italian roasts.
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