He made the remarks while speaking during a coffee power talk meeting held at Pearl of Africa Hotel in Nakasero under the topic; women and youth participation in coffee value chain.”organized by African Fine coffee Association.

Nsibirwa said that if the land is covered with coffee, it will be difficult for land grabbers to take up such land illegally.

He asked the Uganda coffee Development Authority to engage the youth and women to participate and invest in establishment of coffee wilt resistant varieties Nurseries where coffee farmers pick seedlings for planting as a way of encouraging them to be part of the quality coffee moment that will ensure that Uganda produce 20 million bags by 2025 as Brazil is targeting 75 million bags production in the same period.

He asked promoters of coffee growing in Buganda to use Budanda kingdom to access 18 counties ,200 subcounties and over 1000 parish venues  across the kingdom to engage the communities .

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Nsibirwa with Buganda’s budget 2016/17.

Buganda minister for finance and investment, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa has called on investors to tap into more agricultural technology that encourages youth involvement so that they can realise high production of crops like coffee for exports.

Nsibirwa made the remarks while briefing journalists on the upcoming coffee technology expo  organized by Braz –Afric group ,scheduled for 1st to 3rd September this year at UMA conference hall in Kampala.

The expo he said will attract exhibitors from Brazil,Turkey ,Kenya,Burundi ,Rwanda and Uganda.

Nsibirwa who is also the Chief Executive officer, Africa coffee Academy says that youths are not patient to use a hoe for farming, adding that they can only appreciate agriculture through use of technology.

He also says that small holder farmers especially coffee farmers can only earn much from farming through cooperatives societies  which put them in groups and afford to have quality seeds and technological  machines at low cost.
He also calls for intervention to avail water for production using cheaper technology to avoid farmers losing their animals and crops to drought, adding that the coffee industry is affected by drought and disease.

Uganda is still the biggest coffee exporter in Africa with 3.5 million bags per year and second biggest producers.

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