Coffee Plants in Uganda – Integral to Income
In Uganda, coffee is a critical part of the economy and its importance is growing.
Over 1.8 million households grow coffee.
Coffee contributes nearly a third of Uganda’s export earnings.
Every small contribution of coffee beans from each house hold, then sold in the villages, eventually becomes the export that contributes to the government oversight of critical infrastructure like roads, hospitals, and schools.
However coffee farming, in order to be effictive and to improve the lives of Ugandans, each family would need to have a 2-acre plot.
The coffee trees are inter-cropped with traditional food crops and grown in the shade of banana trees and other shade trees.
In these self-sustaining conditions, coffee is left to grow naturally, flowering on average twice a year.
NOTE:The variety of wild Robusta coffee still growing today in Uganda’s rain forests are thought to be some of the rarest examples of naturally occurring coffee trees anywhere in the world.
