The value of Uganda’s coffee exports fell 8.2% in August from the same month a year earlier, undermined by weaker prices, a ministry of agriculture report showed on Tuesday.
Africa's largest exporter of the beans shipped coffee worth $202.8 million in August, the report said.
The decline in the value of exports was a “result of the spillover effect from July when prices went down,” the report said.
Coffee and gold are Uganda’s biggest exports and sources of foreign exchange.
In terms of volumes, Uganda exported 855,441 60-kilogram bags of coffee, 2.5% more than in the same month last year.
The increase was due to “a good crop harvest in most coffee-growing regions.”
