Uganda wants Italian investors to move beyond buying its coffee, milk and minerals to processing them locally, transferring technology and manufacturing finished products for regional and international markets. The Uganda–Italy Business and Investment Forum in Rome has opened discussions around…
Uganda’s cocoa industry is growing rapidly, but the bigger opportunity may lie in what happens after the beans leave the farm. The country exported 72,545 tonnes of cocoa worth US 620.76 million in the financial year 2024/25, up from 51,678…
Uganda has spent years asking how farmers can produce more. The more important question now is whether they can capture more of the value created by what they produce. A coffee farmer may sell beans that are eventually processed, packaged…
For years, agricultural waste has been treated as the unwanted side of farming: coffee husks left around processing plants, maize cobs discarded after harvest, animal manure accumulating on farms and crop residues burned or left to decompose. But across Africa,…
Uganda may have quietly crossed an important economic milestone, one that could carry significant implications for the country’s export economy, industrialisation agenda, and agricultural transformation ambitions. In what many observers are describing as a major breakthrough for Uganda’s agro-processing sector,…