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UCDA Is Gone: Who Now Speaks for Uganda's Coffee Co-operatives?

By Kaza Research Desk

27 December 2024 · 4 min read

Coffee beans spread out to dry in the sun in Uganda — Coffee drying in the sun: the quality services UCDA once provided now sit with MAAIF. · Photo: Denis kasozi / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

For thirty-three years, a coffee farmer's co-operative in Bugisu, Masaka or Ankole knew exactly which public body to approach over grading, quality certificates or a quarrel with a buyer. That changed on 20 December 2024, when President Yoweri Museveni signed the National Coffee (Amendment) Bill, 2024 into law. The Act winds up the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), created in 1991, and hands its work to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).

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Coffee Bill passed seeing UCDA back in mother ministry — Parliament of Uganda, 2024-11-06
Museveni signs coffee Bill into law — Daily Monitor, 2024-12-23
Inside govt coffee plan after rationalising UCDA — Daily Monitor, 2024-10

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