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NUCAFE is National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises. It was founded in 1995 as the Uganda Coffee Farmers Association (UCFA). In 2003, UCFA changed name to NUCAFE in response to members’ needs as a result of needs assessment and strategic planning carried out in year 2003.
Vision
Coffee farmers profitably own their coffee along the value chain for their sustainable livelihoods.
Mission
To develop and establish sustainable market-driven system of coffee farmer associations and groups that are empowered to enhance their household incomes.
Membership
Currently, NUCAFE has 125 coffee farmers associations at sub county level spread all over 5 main coffee growing regions of Uganda, with over 100,000 coffee farming families.
Current Activities
NUCAFE is implementing a farmer driven approach to better position the farmers within the coffee value chain. This is aimed at enhancing quality, and increased market value share. All these activities are implemented using the farmer ownership model.
NUCAFE Ownership Model
Farmers and farmer groups are encouraged to take on as many functions as possible within the value chain in order to improve their incomes. Under this, NUCAFE empowers farmers with goods and services that enable farmers upgrade and move up the coffee value chain. Here, roles of middlemen and processors change. Instead of buying , trader-processors are only processing and milling charges. The processed product is later goes back to the farmer for value addition. The farmer is encouraged to continue sorting, grading, roasting, grinding, branding, among others. [ + ]
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