Uganda is the largest coffee exporters in Africa and coffee is its most important export commodity yet the coffee farmers are the poorest. JKCC having the core objective of increasing production and productivity and eradicate poverty amongst traditional smallholder coffee farmers. Ultimately, Uganda intends to increase the overall coffee production from 5 million bags to date, to 20 million bags by 2030.
In Uganda, coffee farming is the main source of income for many families yet over 80 percent of these families are still living below the poverty line.
“…Growing up in a coffee farming family was an inspiration for me to venture into the business.” Ssegawa John Bosco a youthful farmer from Mpenja -Gomba District narrates.
The JKCC farmer wing “Consortium of Central and Western Farmers Association (COCEWEFA)” has engaged coffee farmer leaders to forge ways of spreading roots deep on the ground to boost coffee farming.