{"id":9221,"date":"2025-03-28T08:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=9221"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:29:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T14:29:48","slug":"uganda-sees-over-70-surge-in-coffee-export-value-in-past-12-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2025\/03\/28\/uganda-sees-over-70-surge-in-coffee-export-value-in-past-12-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Sees Over 70% Surge in Coffee Export Value In Past 12 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Johnson Kanyesige<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s coffee export value has surged by more than 70 percent over the past 12 months, the country\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A ministry statement indicated that Uganda\u2019s coffee exports increased by 6.99 percent in quantity and 70.71 percent in value from March 2024 to February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoffee exports for the 12 months (March 2024 \u2014 February 2025) totaled 6.57 million bags, valued at 1.72 billion U.S. dollars,\u201d the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the top destinations for Ugandan coffee included several European countries, India, Sudan, China, and the United States.<br \/>\nThe ministry attributed the rise in export value to high prices in the global market, which encouraged Ugandan exporters to release more of their stock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe value of coffee exports was higher due to rising global coffee prices, as dry conditions in Brazil and Vietnam \u2014 the world\u2019s largest producers of Arabica and Robusta coffee, respectively \u2014 continue to fuel uncertainty in global coffee supply,\u201d the ministry noted.<\/p>\n<p>To further boost coffee production, the Ugandan government has launched initiatives to distribute free coffee seedlings and enhance supply chain management, aiming to improve both the quantity and quality of the country\u2019s coffee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Johnson Kanyesige Uganda\u2019s coffee export value has surged by more than 70 percent over the past 12 months, the country\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries announced on Wednesday. A ministry statement indicated that Uganda\u2019s coffee exports increased by 6.99 percent in quantity and 70.71 percent in value from March 2024 to February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-national"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9223,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}