For the first time ever, we’re bringing together young people from across coffee value chain under one roof. Looking to connect with fellow farmers, exporters, roasters, baristas, processors, traders, or coffee enthusiasts? Want to taste some of Uganda’s finest coffees, learn how professionals cup and brew coffee or simply discover where the industry is headed? Then this is for you. I’m excited to invite you to the first-ever Youth Coffee Connect, organized by @sectrinesafaris Safaris in partnership with @UYCAlliance 📅 22nd August 2026 📍 The Coffee Space Uganda, Ntinda 🕔 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM This isn’t your typical event. It’s an experience designed by young people for you Here’s what awaits you: ☕ Coffee Tasting & Professional Cupping Session ☕ Live Brewing Demonstrations 🎤 Youth Coffee Stories & Panel Discussions 💡 Coffee Innovation Mini Pitch Challenge 🎙️ Open Mic & Performances 🤝 Networking with farmers, exporters, processors, entrepreneurs and coffee lovers from across the sector Entry: 🎟️ UGX 35,000 🎓 Students: UGX 30,000 📞 Bookings & Partnerships: +256 701 906 437 Book now to secure your slot in this limited edition event Share widely and tag that friend you would love to experience this coffee evening with

If I close this coffee contract today , I will treat myself to this today . So pray for me it goes well today

The more I move through coffee communities and talk to farmers about EUDR, the more I feel we have a communication problem. I actually like the idea of EUDR. I like the fact that the world is asking where our coffee comes from and whether producing it is contributing to deforestation. Uganda should be able to prove that our coffee is responsibly produced. But I think we moved faster with compliance than we did with farmer education. Take this simple example. If I planted eucalyptus trees on my own land, managed them as a plantation and years later harvested those trees, that does not automatically mean I cleared a natural forest for agriculture. Planting and harvesting a planted tree is not the same thing as converting a forest into farmland. Yet when these issues are poorly explained, farmers start thinking that planting or cutting trees could make their coffee non-compliant. That fear can discourage the very agroforestry practices we are trying to promote. That is where I think #EUDR needs a stronger farmer-focused approach. Many farmers still need proper explanation, registration, mapping and practical guidance on what the regulation actually means for their farms. And for young coffee farmers, we need to ask harder questions: Who pays for compliance? What happens when a young farmer inherits land with poor historical records? Who corrects wrong GPS boundaries? Who protects the farmer’s data? And who makes sure compliance doesn’t become another reason for young people to abandon coffee? My action is simple: let’s take EUDR out of conference rooms and into the coffee gardens. Through @UYCAlliance I want us to push more practical EUDR conversations with young farmers explaining mapping, traceability, land-use history, farmer rights and market requirements in language farmers actually understand. EUDR can be good for Uganda. But we cannot build a traceable coffee industry while the farmer at the beginning of the chain is confused about the system. I don’t think Uganda should reject EUDR. I think we should get better at implementing it. Protect the forests. Protect the farmer. Build traceability. But don’t make compliance so complicated that the young people we are encouraging to enter coffee decide to walk away. Let’s not just train farmers to comply. Let’s empower them to understand and participate. This conversation still needs @MAAIF_Uganda @UgandaCoffee_ @EUinUG Delegation to Uganda, @CafeAfrica @ITC_Uganda at the table and most importantly the farmers young themselves. We need to educate these young people more or else we are going to lose a generation of coffee farmers to other things that don’t need EUDR . Am open to a conversation with the young people be it online or physical for us o fully understand this matter For God and my country

My friends who have 9 to 5 jobs can’t relate to the peace such pictures bring this early morning becoz they are busy sending emails 😂😂😂asking about salary delays 😂😂.Anyways enjoy your emails as we enjoy the peace that comes with farming Guys I come in peace #YouthInCoffee

Use this information as you wish! Did you know Buganda produces more coffee than any other region in Uganda? It produces 3.1 million bags of Robusta coffee annually! #CoffeeFacts

Have you seen anything cute today ? . If not then have a close look to this cute arabica red cherries from SL 14 that were selectively hand picked to perfection

I AM LOOKING FOR 35–40 ACRES OF LAND FOR COFFEE FARMING. I am currently looking for 35–40 acres, preferably along the Fort Portal road around Mubende, Kyegegwa, Kyenjojo, Fort Portal or some parts of Buyoro. I am also open to the Busoga sub-region if the land makes sense. My budget is UGX 5M–6M per acre. The land should be accessible and suitable for coffee farming. I am not looking for land just because it is cheap. I need land where we can actually establish a serious coffee farm. So if you have 35–40 acres within that price range or you know someone who does, let’s talk. But if your land is above UGX 6M per acre, please don’t waste your time sending it to me. The budget is clear. I am interested in serious landowners and serious people with genuine land. Let’s talk on 0701906437 or send me an email via info@sectrinegroup.com If you have the land let’s inspect it and do business am time bad I need to get ready for the April planting season Please note that I am interested in working with serious people only who have read and understood what I want . For God and my country #YouthInCoffee

I don’t want to train 10,000 young farmers. Yes, you read that correctly. I don’t want to train 10,000 young farmers. I want to know why after training 10,000 young people, we still have 10,000 young people waiting for someone to give them seedlings, capital, land, markets and another training. At some point we have to admit that counting people in workshops is not the same as creating an agricultural economy. We have become very good at taking pictures of young people holding certificates, seedlings and hoes but not nearly as good at creating young people who own profitable agricultural businesses. I want something much bigger than that. I want a young person owning a coffee farm, another running a nursery business, another aggregating coffee from hundreds of farmers, another providing mechanisation services, another building irrigation solutions, another processing, another doing quality control, another handling logistics, another exporting, another developing agricultural technology, another providing market intelligence and another financing farmers. I don’t want all young people fighting to produce the same crop at the same point in the value chain. I want young people owning different parts of the chain. Because agriculture is not just farming. Agriculture is an economy. And if our idea of youth empowerment is simply putting more young people into production without building the businesses, markets, infrastructure and systems around that production then we are not solving the problem; we are simply creating more people competing for the same opportunities. So maybe we need to stop asking, “How many young people have we trained?” and start asking, “How many agricultural businesses have we helped young people build? How many jobs did they create? How much value did they retain? How many markets did they access? How many problems did they solve?” This is the conversation I want us to turn into action through @UYCAlliance . We are going to push beyond simply telling young people to grow coffee. We want to help young people identify opportunities across the coffee value chain, connect them to land, knowledge, markets, networks and practical opportunities and most importantly, start building businesses around the gaps they see. I don’t want 10,000 young farmers with 10,000 similar problems. I want 10,000 young people looking at agriculture and asking, “Where is the gap and how do I build a business around solving it?” So here’s the challenge: if you are a young person interested in coffee, don’t just tell me you want to farm. Tell me what problem in the coffee value chain you want to solve. If you have an idea, a farm, a business or a skill, bring it to the table. Let’s build from there. The future of African agriculture will not be built by making young people permanent beneficiaries of agricultural programmes. It will be built when young people become the owners of the agricultural economy. And through Ushirikka Youth Coffee Alliance that’s the direction I want us to take. For God and my country #YouthInCoffee

Today, the world celebrates the #InternationalCoffeeday We will post the beautiful cups, talk about exports, celebrate production volumes, share impressive statistics and remind the world that Uganda is one of Africa’s great coffee countries. And yes, we should celebrate. But today, I want us to look beyond the cup and beyond the numbers. I want us to celebrate the young Ugandans who have refused to give up on coffee even when agriculture is still treated as something for people without options. I want us to celebrate the farmer who continues planting despite rising costs, unpredictable weather and difficult markets. I want us to celebrate the women whose hands provide so much of the labour that keeps coffee farms alive, yet whose contribution is often missing when we talk about who actually benefits from the industry. Because behind every kilogram of coffee leaving Uganda is a story. There is a farmer who waited for the harvest. There is a young person who invested their little savings into seedlings. There is a woman who spent hours in the garden. There is a family paying school fees from coffee. There is a transporter, a nursery operator, a processor, a trader and many other young people whose livelihoods are connected to this crop. These are not just statistics. These are people’s lives. And that is why I think International Coffee Day should be more than a celebration of how much coffee Uganda produces or how much money the country earns from exports. We need to start asking uncomfortable questions. When Uganda’s coffee numbers go up, whose income goes up? When export earnings increase, does the farmer’s household economy improve? When we celebrate record volumes, are young people becoming more interested in owning coffee farms, or are they still running away from agriculture because they see little opportunity in it? When coffee becomes more valuable internationally, does that value travel back to the people who planted, weeded, harvested and protected those trees? If the answer is not always yes then we still have work to do. I believe Uganda does not simply need more coffee. Uganda needs a stronger coffee economy around the farmer. We need young people to see coffee not just as a crop but as a business and an asset. We need women to have greater ownership and decision-making power in the coffee chain. We need better access to land, finance, quality planting materials, extension, technology, processing and reliable markets. So today, as the world raises its cup of coffee let us raise something else with it the ambition of the Ugandan farmer. Let us celebrate the young people who stayed. Let us celebrate the women whose labour keeps the chain alive. Let us celebrate the farmers who continue to believe in this crop. But after the celebrations, let us get back to work. Because the real victory will not be when Uganda exports more coffee. The real victory will be when a young Ugandan can look at a coffee farm and see a future, when a woman who works in that chain owns a meaningful share of its value, and when the farmer at the beginning of the chain can genuinely feel the success we celebrate at the end of it. Happy International Coffee Day. Today, celebrate the coffee. Tomorrow, let us fight for the people behind it. For God and my country #YouthInCoffee

Who is teaching farmers how to negotiate? We have spent years teaching farmers how to plant, prune, spray, harvest and improve the quality of their coffee. We organise trainings, demonstrations and workshops and then send farmers back to their farms with more knowledge about production. But there is one question I keep asking myself: who is teaching the farmer how to negotiate? Because you can teach a farmer to produce the best coffee on the market but if that farmer doesn’t know the prevailing prices, doesn’t understand quality premiums, doesn’t know their cost of production, doesn’t understand what buyers are looking for and is afraid to say NO to a bad deal then we have only solved half the problem. And this is where I think agriculture needs to change. A farmer should not only be trained to produce; they should be trained to do business. Teach them how to calculate their margins. Teach them how to compare buyers. Teach them how to read a contract. Teach them how to ask questions before accepting a price. Teach them how to understand the value of their quality. Most importantly, teach them that having a buyer does not automatically mean having a good deal. Sometimes we celebrate farmers because they have increased production from 5 bags to 20 bags but nobody asks the more important question: how much did the farmer actually make from those 20 bags? Production without profitable markets can simply mean producing more of what doesn’t pay enough. I have increasingly realised that some of the biggest opportunities in agriculture are not necessarily about teaching farmers to produce another tonne. Sometimes it is about giving them the information, confidence and business skills to make better decisions about the tonnes they are already producing. Maybe the next agricultural extension officer shouldn’t only ask, “How many acres did you plant?” Maybe they should also ask, “At what price did you sell, what did it cost you to produce, who bought it and why did you accept that price?” Because a farmer who can produce but cannot negotiate will always depend on someone else to determine the value of their work. For God and my country

For the last one week, I have moved through different parts of Uganda looking for land and one thing has become very clear to me: Uganda still has land. A lot of it. The question is not always “Is land expensive?” Sometimes the question should be “Where are you looking and how are you planning to get there?” From what I have seen and been discussing with landowners, prices can vary widely depending on location. In parts of the North, an acre can range from about UGX 500,000 to UGX 2.5M. In the West, I have encountered figures around UGX 5M–7M, while parts of Central Uganda can be around UGX 7M–12M. In the East, some areas are around UGX 6M–8M. I am not saying every acre in these regions costs this much. Land prices depend heavily on location, road access, soil, title status, demand and many other factors. I am simply sharing what the last one week of moving around has shown me. Lets imagine a young person who can consistently save UGX 500,000 every month. In one year, that is UGX 6M. That may not buy land in the most expensive parts of Central Uganda but it can open very different possibilities elsewhere. You can start thinking beyond buying an acre where everyone wants to buy and start thinking about where the opportunity is. Save slowly. Search widely. Verify properly. Buy when you can. Then develop your land step by step. My challenge to young people is simple: stop waiting for someone to give you land. This month, identify the region and type of land you want. Find out the real prices. Set a monthly savings target. Talk to people already farming there. Visit the land physically. And if you cannot buy an acre alone, start talking to other young people about legitimate group land ownership and production. We don’t need to own 100 acres tomorrow. Let’s get one acre first. Then another. Then another. The question is no longer “Can young people afford land?” The question is: what are you willing to sacrifice for your first acre?. For God and my country

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