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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