Coffee authority destroys 60 tonnes of poor quality coffee

Joseph Miti
Kampala

Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has destroyed 60 tons of coffee beans worth Shs190 million. The coffee was confiscated from traders in separate verification exercises carried out countrywide, after the beans were proved to be substandard.

UCDA officials said the 60 tons of coffee were recovered from traders who sought to make profits from illicit trade. “It unfortunate that some traders mix all sort of trash in to coffee for quick gains,” UCDA Principal Researcher Officer Frederick Sewaya told Daily Monitor on October 15. “We can’t let such acts to carry on. They (acts) affect Uganda’s coffee quality, value and volumes exported,” Mr Sewaya said.

The development, however, came days after the authority released its annual report, which indicated that the quality of Uganda coffee has tremendously increased.

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Kenya: Coffee Bags Turn Out to Be Sand After All

The Nation (Nairobi)
2 November 2007

Amina Kibirige
Nairobi

A consignment of coffee destined for US has turned out to be no more than sand.

The consignment from Uganda was discovered after it reached Mombasa.

Sift Track Transporting Company had been contracted to move the three containers of 21 tonnes each from Kampala to Mombasa to be exported to United States. But when the containers reached Mombasa on board three trucks, the management sought to verify the contents, only to discover that the containers were stuffed with bags full of sand.

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