Abstract:
In spite of high fluctuations in world coffee market prices and the .?reakdown of
the Coffee Commodity International Agreement in 1989, coffee is till Uganda's
major foreign exchange earner, providing US $402 million as compared to US $134
million earned from non-coffee exports in the financial year 1994/95. Consiler;_n2
that 88 per cent of the Ugandan population who live in rural areas depend on
agricultural production for their livelihood (employment generation. provision of
food and farm cash income to purchase basic necessities - medicine and essential
commodities) then coffee in Uganda, can be regarded as one of the economic
pillars not only of the national economy, but also of the rural coffee producing
communities