{"id":27086,"date":"2022-05-23T09:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/?p=27086"},"modified":"2022-05-23T09:19:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T09:19:58","slug":"uganda-exports-decline-24-percent-after-bad-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/uganda-exports-decline-24-percent-after-bad-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"UGANDA EXPORTS DECLINE 24 PERCENT AFTER BAD HARVEST"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s coffee exports declined 24% year-on-year in April the state-run sector regulator Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) reported last week. The organisation&nbsp; blamed the weather, as a drought in some parts of the country cut yields,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The east African country shipped a total of 407,762 60-kilogram bags, down 24% compared with the same month last year, UCDA said in a report. This reverses the progress the country was making from 2017-2020 in which production increased each year, and continues the recent downward trend as the January numbers reported by the International Coffee Organization (ICO) disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uganda Total Crop Production 2017-2020<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>[wpdatatable id=34]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uganda Coffee Exports 2021 to 2021 (R\/A)<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>[wpdatachart id=9]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strong prices however, have protected the countries revenues, and despite the low production, the value had increased to&nbsp; $70.9 million, up 42% when compared with April 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is good news for Uganda, as coffee exports provide a critical inflow of foreign currency to the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda is the eighth largest exporter of coffee in the world, and the largest in Africa, ahead of Ethiopia. The country recently chose to withdraw from the ICO in a move that has proved controversial, especially with farmers who have been perplexed by the governments strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cgiarclimate\/\">Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security | Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s coffee exports declined 24% year-on-year in April the state-run sector regulator Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) reported last week. The organisation&nbsp; blamed the weather, as a drought in some parts of the country cut yields,&nbsp; The east African country shipped a total of 407,762 60-kilogram bags, down 24% compared with the same month last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1734],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27086"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27094,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27086\/revisions\/27094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartalks.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}