The Ugandan Parliament has passed the National Coffee Bill, 2018, which provides for registration of coffee farmers by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA).
It says the registration of farmers will enable the government to capture details of the size of land, number of coffee trees, and particulars of farmers, coffee buyers, sellers, and nursery bed operators.
The National Coffee Bill, 2018 repeals and replaces the Uganda Coffee Development Authority Act, Cap. 325, which was enacted in 1991 and only covered off-farm activities of marketing and processing, leaving on-farm activities like planting materials, nurseries, harvesting, and post-harvesting handling outside the scope of the law.
According to the Bill, registration of farmers will be free and each registered farmer will be given an identification number. For a person to be registered, the bill states “he or she shall either be growing coffee at the time of registration or shall have proof of his…
