About Central Coffee Farmers Association(CECOFA)
Central Coffee Farmers Association (CECOFA), is a ‘farmer owned‘ organization that brings together coffee farmers from the Central region (Wakiso, Masaka, Luwero and Bukuya, Kibale, Mpigi, Bukuga, Mubende), helping them improve their farming practices, access the international market, and receive free technical training and support in coffee farming.
CECOFA was founded in 2005 by a small group of entrepreneurial farmers, now made up of 3664 farmers within the districts of central Uganda, located near the shores of Lake Victoria, close to the Equator line. 1,200 of these are FairTrade and 4C certified.
What We Do
- Training farmers on good agricultural practices, coffee post-harvest handling which enables the company to promote high quality Robusta coffee.
- Encouraging youth to maintain coffee farms through games and sports as the entry point.
- Training farmers in various environmental protection activities like tree replanting programmes and soil protection.
- Mobilizing of farmers within the central region and other parts of Uganda to do coffee farming as a business.
- We put special attention on women through training in gender equity and effective involvement in coffee farming as a business.
- To encourage train and empower farmers to respect value chain
- To train youth and women join coffee farming as a business
- Train coffee farmers in diversification
- Train farmers to protect the environment
- Train coffee farmers to understand the importance of growing coffee
- Enable sustainability through CECOFA through coffee exports
- Fundraising through development partners
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