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FAS/Nairobi forecasts Uganda’s coffee production in the Marketing Year (MY) 2024/25 to reach 6.9 million bags (60 kg), an increase of 40,000 bags from the previous year, due to adoption of good agricultural practices, targeted interventions to combat pest and disease outbreaks, and maturation of new high-yielding seedlings planted in recent years.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts Uganda’s marketing year (MY) 2023/24 coffee production will increase 4 percent to 6.85 million 60 kilogram bags due to good rainfall and the maturation of new high-yielding Robusta seedlings planted in 2019.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts an increase in Uganda’s marketing year (MY) 2022/23 coffee production to a new record of 6.65 million bags due to favorable weather and recently established plantations coming into full production. Arabica production is anticipated to decrease by 5.2 percent to 900,000 bags due to cyclical yield variation.

Marketing year (MY) 2021/22 production and exports are forecast to hold steady from MY 2020/21 as farmers take old trees out of production via stumping.

The Venezuelan coffee sector is struggling with shortages of fuel, agro-chemicals, and replacement parts. In MY 2020/21, post forecasts continued decreases in production based on input limitations.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a rebound of Uganda’s coffee production in marketing year (MY) 2020/2021 due to good weather, and harvests from recently established plantations.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a decrease in Uganda’s coffee production in marketing year (MY) 2019/2020 due to anticipated drought conditions in the coffee growing regions.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a ten percent increase in Uganda’s coffee production in the marketing year (MY) 2018/2019 due to favorable weather and harvests from newly matured plantations.

Economic mismanagement and an overdependence on oil exports have led to Venezuela’s economy contracting for the fourth year in a row, down an estimated 15 percent in calendar year (CY) 2017.

FAS/Nairobi forecasts a modest increase in Uganda’s coffee production in the marketing year (MY) 2017/2018 due to harvests from new maturing plantations.

Production of domestic coffee in MY 2016/17 is expected to barely increase to 530,000 bags (1 bag=60 Kilograms) of green bean equivalent (GBE).

On October 27, 2016, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) temporarily (one year) eliminated import tariffs and value added taxes for scarce agricultural products...