UGANDA – Kyagalanyi installs new processing machine

MILAN – According to local reports, Kyagalanyi Coffee (Volcafe Group), a leading Ugandan exporter, has installed a US$75,000 processing machinery at its base in Mukono.

This modern facility will increase efficiency to ensure timely packaging of processed coffee for export, said a company official.

Kyagalanyi recently hosted a two-week training scheme for over 30 staff of Faulu Ltd, a local agro-loan financier

According to the same report, the Us Agency for International Development (Usaid) has teamed-up with Faulu to improve accessibility of agro-loans to coffee farmers, using Kyagalanyi as a pilot project.

Kyagalanyi had also teamed-up with the Coffee Research Institute in Kituuza, Mukono and Kawanda Research Station to experiment new lines of coffee resistant to the wilt disease.