Africa’s Top Coffee Exporter May Miss Season Shipment Target
- Ugandan exports may be 3.6 million bags, farmers’ body said
- Drought has hurt yields in south; harvest is underway
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Coffee exports from Uganda, Africa’s biggest shipper of the beans, may be about 5 percent less than a forecast from the industry regulator as drought cuts yields, a farmers’ group said.
Exports in the 12 months though September may drop to 3.6 million 60-kilogram (132-pound) bags, David Muwonge, deputy executive director of the Kampala-based National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises, said by phone Tuesday. That compares with a 3.8 million-bag target given by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority last year.