{"id":14094,"date":"2025-10-29T10:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-september-coffee-exports-surge-59-on-bumper-crop\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:44","slug":"uganda-september-coffee-exports-surge-59-on-bumper-crop","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-september-coffee-exports-surge-59-on-bumper-crop\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda September coffee exports surge 59% on bumper crop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s September coffee exports jumped 59% year-on-year, boosted by a copious crop in parts of the East African nation, the Agriculture Ministry said this Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In September, Africa&#8217;s largest coffee exporter shipped 844 949 60-kg bags of the beans, compared with 532 212 bags exported in the same period last year, the Ministry said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coffee and gold are Uganda&#8217;s largest sources of foreign exchange. The Agriculture Ministry projects coffee production will rise 15% in the crop year that started this month.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coffee export volume was higher than the previous year on account of increased coffee production as the harvest in Central and Eastern regions is already underway,&#8221; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Uganda earned $2.2 billion from coffee exports in the 12 months to September, up 57% from the same period a year ago, according to data from the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14095,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14094","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Uganda's September coffee exports jumped 59% year-on-year","published_date":"2025-10-29 12:46:55","news_description":"Uganda's September coffee exports jumped 59% year-on-year","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18912,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14094\/revisions\/18912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}