"Busoga coffee farmers to negotiate own prices"

Busoga Kingdom has secured a lucrative market for coffee farmers in the sub-region...The deal struck with German company Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), one of the world’s leading players in the coffee value chain, will eliminate the middle man from the picture, leaving the farmers to directly negotiate for what is due to them as opposed to what is meant for them...

...Mr Muvawala...said: “We are going to eliminate middle men who have been buying coffee from farmers at a low price.” He continued: “Neumann Kaffee Gruppe will be buying our coffee at Shs5,600 per kilogramme instead of Shs3,200 which is the current price at which farmers sell their coffee.”...Traditionally coffee is the country’s leading cash crop. However farmers in Busoga sub-region, although good coffee farmers, appear to be more endeared toward sugar cane growing at the expense of other cash crops, including food crops.