The Coffee yearbook 2014/15
The Coffee yearbook 2014/15
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The2ndUgandaCoffeeFootball
Tournament:
BATTLEOFTHETITANS.
U
ganda Coffee Federation (UCF) in collaboration with several partners
organized the second Uganda Coffee Football Tournament on 26th
September 2015.
The purpose of Uganda Coffee Football Tournament is to create an avenue for
networkingand interactionof thevarioussectorplayersatmainly the tactical and
operational levelsof theorganisationswithin theCoffee industry. It isalsoawayof
engaging theyouth tomotivate them so that they can takeon some roleswithin
thecoffeevaluechain.
This year’s tournament attracted 10 teams that comprised of coffee exporters,
traders, farmers, farms and farmer organisations from Eastern, Central and
South-western coffee growing regions. The one-day Tournament was held
at both Makerere University Business School (MUBS) and Uganda Institute of
Communications and Technology (UICT) and registered a turn-up of over 650
youths and spectators. The spectators enjoyed the matches while sipping the
freshly roastandgroundandbrewedcoffee servedbyCoffee-A-CupatMUBSand
UCDAatUICT.
Thematchwasmadepossibleby thegenerous contributionofUgacof, Kawacom
(U) Ltd, Export Trading Group, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Uganda Coffee
Development Authority, Besmark Coffee Ltd, Guzman Global, Africa Coffee
Academy, AnkoleCoffeeProducersUnionLtd, Nsangi CoffeeFarmersAssociation
andBbuuleGatesFarm.
The organising committee included Michael Nuwagaba (Chairman), Buule
Ronald, Swaleh Shali, James Kizito Mayanja, Sserukwaya Steven, William Nteza,
KenethMagomwe, Samson Emong, Jean Emmanuel P. B, Dick R. Wadada, Betty
Namwagala, Robert Musenze, Sylvia Chelimo, Amos Kasigi, and Haji Nsamba.
These made tremendous contribution to the tournament through financial
