Supporting small holder coffee farmers produce high yields.
Rwandaro Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Society overall mission is to improve members’ livelihoods and household income through coffee production, value addition and training on good agronomic practices. The cooperative is registered under the laws of Uganda, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives as a Cooperative Society, under the Cooperative Societies Act.
The cooperative has a coffee factory and offices both located in Rwandaro village, we produce both Arabic and Robusta with a total productive area of 442 hectares of both Arabic & Robusta and average yield per hectare of 1,100 kilograms per hectare annually and a production capacity of 486,200 kilograms (green bean).
We provide financial inclusion and strategically link farmers with Financial Institutions to encourage saving and increase access to credit. This boosts farmers' capital for inputs, labour and transportation. This eases coffee production and eventually increases farmers’ income. The cooperative trains rural farmers in Village Saving Schemes to ease access to financial services to increase coffee production as well as general wellbeing.
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Our training is localized to viable coffee agronomical practices aimed at improving both coffee production and productivity for the smallholder farmers. Good agricultural practices lead to high yields and incomes for our members.
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Coffee value addition is through processing, drying of coffee cherries or hulling coffee beans. Coffee is one of Uganda’s most prominent foreign exchange earners and major agricultural exports. Previous research has shown that farmers can increase their share of the final market price for their commodities if they undertake value addition to their commodities.
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We help farmers gain market power by joining together to market their coffee collectively at better prices and increase farmers’ bargaining power by achieving economies of scale.
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Provide inputs to farmers at subsidized prices and link farmers to supplies / programs / inputs like seedlings, agro-chemicals, fertilizers etc. from Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), other government and non-governmental agencies.
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