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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Christopher Kibazanga State Minister for Agriculture

State Minister for Agriculture, Christopher Kibazanga, has retaliated a warning to coffee farmers  saying government is more than ready to continue closing coffee factories that continue to produce and deal in poor quality coffee.

Kibazanga while speaking at the coffee meeting in Kampala recently said that this action is geared towards giving the country a new face as Africa’s best coffee growing and producing country.

“It is so sad to state that the country still exports raw coffee to the market which should have stopped way back to pave way for the country to start adding value onto the product and later export it to the global markets,” said Kibazanga.

Buganda Minister for Investment, Robert Wagwa Nsibirwa, who is also the vice chairman organizing committee of the conference says the upcoming 16^th Africa fine coffee conference will give Uganda coffee growers and exporters millage at global market as the country will still display its best coffee products for the international exhibitors.

He also added that the new coffee bill government is pushing to be enacted into law will assist in elimination bad practices of coffee farmers who harvest poor quality coffee.

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