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THE 2nd UGANDA COFFEE DAY ON 6TH OCTOBER 2011

Uganda Coffee Trade Federation [UCTF] is organizing the second Uganda Coffee Day that will be held on Thursday 6th October 2011 at Nakanyonyi Coffee Centre-20km on Mukono-Kayunga Road.

The Uganda Coffee Day is an annual convention of coffee stakeholders that marks the beginning coffee year in Uganda to focus and appreciate a selected challenge of the industry and also share in the mitigation strategies of going forward in the coffee year.

On 1st October 2010 the inaugural Uganda Coffee Day was held at the Agro-Genetic Technologies [AGT] in Buloba, focusing on tissue culture as the most appropriate technology to rapidly generate seedling required in the replanting programme.

Behind the scenes, discussions between UCDA and AGT have been going on, to see how government and the private sector can work together to solve the coffee stakeholders’ quest for disease free planting materials. However, the major hurdle to the mass multiplication of the 7 CWDr lines currently is the capacity to wean and harden the delicate seedling from the laboratory. Now the question is “What next?”

The UCTF Board and members are determined to support and participate in every effort that will realize the production of adequate CWDr materials for the farmers because this is the genesis of increasing coffee Production and productivity. To build and sustain momentum of these efforts, UCTF acknowledge the efforts of government to increase coffee production and thus the theme of the 2nd Coffee Day “Public Private Partnership [PPP] for Rapid Multiplication of the 7 Coffee Wilt Resistant Lines.” The focus of this day will be to establish ways in which the Public [UCDA, NARO-COREC] and Private [Tissue Culture, Green Houses, Farmer Groups, Exporters, etc..] can work together to generate, multiply and distribute CWDr in an efficient and an effective way to work towards the production of at least 20 million disease free seedlings every year.

Nakanyonyi Coffee Centre was chosen to host the second Uganda Coffee Day because it is one of the few centers that have the nurseries multiplying the 7 CWDR lines in the country. Stakeholders will have a guided tour of the mother garden/ nursery of 7 CWDr lines with guidance from the experts from COREC and Nakanyonyi.
The day will also involve presentations from the Public and Private sector individuals who will be working on these efforts. The day will be crowned with an open discussion from stakeholders to focus the way forward to a common industry goal of increased productivity and production.

Please join us as we celebrate a New Year for the coffee industry in Uganda on the 6th October 2011 at Nakanyonyi Coffee Centre, Mukono.

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