{"id":19948,"date":"2026-01-13T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19948\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:25:11","slug":"ugandas-coffee-shipments-surge-more-than-60-on-plentiful-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19948\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s coffee shipments surge more than 60% on plentiful harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/sthelena_loading_coffee_freight.jpg\" class=\"alignleft wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>                                            <\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s coffee exports jumped 60.3% in November compared with the same month a year earlier, helped by a bountiful harvest in some parts of the country, the agriculture ministry said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>The East African country is the continent\u2019s largest coffee exporter followed by Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Shipments in November amounted to 640,328 60-kg bags versus 399,381 bags exported in the same month in 2024, the report reviewed by Reuters on Monday showed.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee is one of Uganda\u2019s biggest sources of foreign exchange alongside gold.<\/p>\n<p>The surge in exports was due to \u201cincreased coffee production as the harvest in Central and Eastern regions peaked,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda took in $2.4 billion from coffee exports in the twelve months to November.<br \/>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s coffee exports jumped 60.3% in November compared with the same month a year earlier, helped by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[153],"class_list":{"0":"post-19948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uganda","8":"tag-uganda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}