Tropical African Coffee Bean Elgon Mountain area, Uganda, which produces Robart Coffee beans

The cultivation of coffee in Uganda is all small-scale family operation. The livelihood of 25% of the population is closely related to coffee production. About 500000 farms grow coffee, but mainly Robster. Robster accounts for 90% of coffee production, and the remaining 1 is Arabica coffee. Arabica and Live Buster are harvested from October to February of the following year. The main sales areas and quality grades of Ugandan coffee are: Bujisu Bugisu AA (accounting for only 4% of the total national production), Bujisu Bugisu A, Vago Wugar A (all of the above belong to water washing treatment), and a small amount of sun-dried bean beads Drugar. Bugisu Bugisu AA. Among them, AA represents the grade of coffee and represents the highest grade in the country. Bugisu Bugisu grows on the slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda. The palate is thick and low in acidity, with a unique taste of raw papaya, which is very different from other East African coffee, closer to Java coffee in Indonesia.

Uganda leads Africa in coffee production, accounting for more than 70% of its total exports. In the 1960s, Ugandan coffee production remained at 3.5 million bags a year. By the mid-1980s, coffee production had dropped to 2.5 million bags a year, mainly for political reasons. But now coffee production is on the rise again, currently about 3 million bags a year. It is mainly exported to the European Union, with Germany, Italy and other countries as the largest coffee buyers.

Ugandan Coffee settled in Beijing

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, 3 Apr (Reporter Wang Jun)-- Beijing Chenao Coffee Co., Ltd., a cooperation project between China and Uganda, officially opened in Beijing today. James Wapakhabulo, deputy prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, his wife Angelina Wapakhabulo, and Meng Xuenong, executive vice mayor of Beijing, attended the opening ceremony.

Beijing Chenao Coffee Co., Ltd. is a joint venture between Beijing Beichen Industrial Group and Uganda Coffee Development Bureau. It is the first coffee enterprise in Uganda to cooperate with China.

Uganda is a tropical African country, its fertile soil, suitable altitude and climatic conditions are suitable for the growth of high-quality coffee. As early as more than a decade ago, the leaders of China and Ukraine had the intention to enhance the trade cooperation and traditional friendship between the two countries through coffee trade. With the concern of the leaders of the two countries and the support of the Beijing Municipal Government, Beijing Beichen Industrial Group and the Ugandan Coffee Development Bureau formally signed a cooperation agreement on January 21 this year. The coffee launched by Chenao Company chooses the pattern of Crown Crane, a rare bird well known in Uganda, as a trademark to represent the natural and pure coffee products.