The wild coffee resources of Uganda:a precious heritage History, attributes, uses, opportunities, and risks

Uganda is the world’s seventh largest coffee exporter, and the fourth largest producer of robusta coffee (Coffea canephora) after Vietnam, Brazil, and Indonesia; and the second largest exporter of coffee in Africa, after Ethiopia. In 2021/22 Uganda exported c. 351,500 metric tons (mt) of coffee, with robusta contributing 83% and Arabica 17 %. As a commodity crop, coffee accounts for 20–30% of the foreign exchange earnings for Uganda, with an estimated 1.8 m households engaged in coffee farming alone, and many more in post-farm coffee sector activities.

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