{UAH} Uganda Coffee Output to rise by 54% by 2019

Folks;

I want to believe this projection, I really do, but something tells me otherwise! 

Uganda's agriculture survives at the mercy of Mother Nature. Any drastic change in weather patterns comes at costly devastation because we usually do not have Plan B. Without irrigation systems in place, prolonged drought will wither away crops; too much rains will uproot every crop in the farm.

And this phenomenon is countrywide.

Pojim

Uganda Coffee Output Seen Advancing 54 Percent by 2019-20

By Fred Ojambo  Sep 29, 2014 12:38 AM PT  

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Uganda, Africa's second-biggest coffee grower, may lift production 54 percent by 2019-20 as a result of a tree-planting program, the industry regulator said.

Output may climb to 5.87 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags in 2019-20 from 3.8 million kilograms in 2012-13, the country's Coffee Development Authority said today in a statement in the Kampala-based Daily Monitor newspaper. Production may climb to 15 million bags by 2039-40, it said. Exports could rise to 5.3 million bags from 3.58 million in 2012-13 and reach 12 million bags in 2039-40, the regulator said.

At least 17 million trees were planted last season and the number may climb to 225 million in total by 2019-20, the UCDA said. Some 75 million more trees are due to be planted by June, it said. The East African country, the continent's second-biggest coffee producer after Ethiopia, started a planting program in 1994 to replace trees affected by coffee wilt disease, which destroyed 150 million trees.

The country, which grows mostly the robusta variety used in instant drinks and espressos, ships most of its beans to the European Union, the U.S., Sudan, Switzerland, India, Singapore and Russia, according to the regulator.

To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Ojambo in Kampala at fojambo@bloomberg.net