The best coffee producing area in Uganda the Ruwensori Mountains in the north and west of the country

The civil war almost destroyed coffee production.

Two decades of disastrous civil war in southern Sudan has claimed millions of lives and caused untold damage to rural areas, including the coffee industry.

Robbins coffee is now grown in the south as in the past, while Arabica coffee, which used to be wild, is grown in the north and east of the country.

Historically, Arabs shipped black people from southern Sudan to Arabia as slaves, and slaves took coffee beans with them to satisfy their hunger. It is said that these coffee beans were introduced into Yemen as a result. It was these unfortunate Sudanese slaves who first began to grow coffee, making it a widely cultivated and widely traded agricultural product in the world today.

At present, the coffee industry in Sudan is on the verge of danger, with only a very small amount of coffee exported in Uganda. Arabian coffee beans account for only 10% of the country's total coffee production, but it is enough to attract attention. Uganda's best coffee is mainly produced in the mountains of Elgon and Bugisu along the Kenyan border in the north and Ruwensori in the west, and is available for export in January or February of each year.

The equator runs across Uganda, and the suitable climate makes it the main producing area of Robart coffee beans in the world. In the 1960s, Ugandan coffee production remained at 3.5 million bags a year. By the mid-1980s, coffee production had dropped to 250 bags a year, mainly for political reasons. But now coffee production is on the rise again, currently about 3 million bags a year. One of the main problems facing the coffee industry is that there are no good roads to transport coffee to ports such as Mombasa in Kenya or Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

In order to improve the quality and reduce the cost of coffee, Uganda cancelled the exclusive management right of the Coffee Management Committee (Coffee Marketing Board, referred to as CMB) in November 1990. Most of the work originally undertaken by the Coffee Management Committee has now been handed over to the cooperative organization. Privatized coffee accounts for 2% of the country's export revenue, so the government imposes a tax on coffee shops, hoping to increase much-needed revenue. But instead, coffee exports fell by 20%, and coffee smuggling became more and more serious.

Like Tanzania, the rise in coffee prices in recent years has encouraged farmers to return to their estates and reclaim once-abandoned land to grow coffee, and the Ugandan coffee industry looks promising.