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Overview
T
his report presents the findings of an examination of
the economic viability and sustainability of investing in
the production of coffee planting materials. The study
done by AgribusinessManagement Associates (U) Ltd (AMA)
was commissioned by USAID/Uganda Feed the Future (FTF)
CommodityProductionandMarketingActivity (CPMA)with the
objective to evaluate the economic viability and sustainability
of investing in the production of coffee planting materials,
highlighting theexistingandpotential investment opportunities
in themultiplicationanddistributionof affordablequalitycoffee
plantingmaterialsandsuggesting themost viablepropagation
method thatmatches the demand for plantingmaterials.
Methodology
The study carried out between July and September 2014,
used quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques
and was conducted in 15 districts across four regions to
represent key coffee production areas. The target population
constitutedprimaryactorsdirectly involved in the supplychain
including research, multiplication, planting, 50% of all nursery
operators, Tissue Culture (TC) laboratories, private sector,
government, development partners and a 10 farmers in each
of four of the most important coffee producing sub-counties
in each district.
KEYSTUDYFINDINGS
Background
Thisstudypresents inpartkey informationon theperformance
of research, productionanddistributionof clonal coffee, CWD
tolerant coffee lines, key challenges faced by the research
institute, areas of opportunities for partnership and scaling up
of coffee research. It provides the mapping of coffee nursery
operators in the selecteddistricts, their production capacities,
quantities supplied to the different markets, costs and
benefits of investing in coffee nurseries, plus challenges and
opportunities in thecoffeesector. The farmersare theultimate
consumers of the coffee seedlings; these findings highlight
EVALUATIONOFTHE
ECONOMICVIABILITY
ANDSUSTAINABILITY
OF INVESTING IN
THEPRODUCTIONOF
COFFEEPLANTING
MATERIALS INUGANDA
