{"id":33736,"date":"2026-05-05T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33736"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:09:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:09:30","slug":"uganda-march-coffee-exports-up-slightly-from-a-year-earlier","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uganda-march-coffee-exports-up-slightly-from-a-year-earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda March coffee exports up slightly from a year earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Uganda&#8217;s coffee exports in March rose 2.9% from a year earlier \u200bon the back of a good \u200ccrop, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries said in a report.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The \u200bcommodity is one of the \u200bEast African country&#8217;s top foreign exchange \u2060earners.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Uganda is Africa&#8217;s largest exporter of \u200bcoffee followed by Ethiopia.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Uganda shipped 671,152 \u200b60-kg bags of the beans in March, up 2.9% from the same month last year, \u200baccording to the report released late \u200bon Monday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Coffee export volumes during the month were \u200chigher \u2060than March of last year on account of increased coffee production,&#8221; the report said, adding, however, that in \u200bterms of \u200bvalue, \u2060March&#8217;s earnings were lower by 13.6% from a year earlier \u200bon account of lower global \u200bprices.<\/div>\n<div>In \u2060the 12 months to March, Uganda earned $2.4 billion from coffee exports, up \u2060from $1.8 \u200bbillion in the previous \u200bperiod, the Ministry said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014Reuters\u2014<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33738,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-33736","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The \u200bcommodity is one of the \u200bEast African country's top foreign exchange \u2060earners.","published_date":"","news_description":"The \u200bcommodity is one of the \u200bEast African country's top foreign exchange \u2060earners.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33736","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\/33736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33739,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33736\/revisions\/33739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=33736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}