Services Offered To Our Producers
One key challenge to coffee farmers in Uganda is access to finance. During the cooperative assessment performed in November 2018 by Agriterra’s cooperative advisors, it was identified that 70 percent of the farmer members need advanced cash to be used for input labor, school fees, and other expenses before the end of the harvesting season. That’s why many sell their coffee to middlemen at the flowering phase to get advanced cash, leaving farmers with less income and Kasaali with few farmers supplying coffee cherries (less than half of the members supplied coffee cherries to the cooperative).
In, September 2020, as part of an exchange visit to the local coffee cooperative Kibinge to learn about coffee export markets, Kasaali learned the importance of diversifying the services provided to members. For instance, Kibinge had integrated a savings and credit unit as part of the cooperative business, providing loans to farmers during the planting and harvest season, with a check-off system to settle their debts by supplying their coffee production to the cooperative.
This was an eye-opener for Kasaali, which included the creation of a separate savings and credit unit as a key milestone in its strategic plan.
Our coffee Nursery provides improved coffee seedlings to farmers. Farmers have access to disease-resistant seedlings that are high-yielding. The major seedlings include Elite and Clonal Robusta.
We are privileged to have a complete coffee processing facility that hulls and grades coffee. Farmers have the opportunity to sale their coffee at different levels with different screens of 12, 15, and 18. Each grade has a unique price depending on the quality of the coffee beans.
Kasaali Coffee Exports Uganda Natural Robusta Coffee in the form of Screen 12, Screen 15, and Screen 18. We do deliver FOB Mombasa and FOT Kampala.
Kasaali Coffee provides genuine farm inputs to its farmers inform of Farm Tools, Fertilizers, Fungicides, Herbicides, Liquid Fertilizers, Pesticides, Seeds, and Solid Fertilizers.
We focus on increasing production and productivity. The extension team in place offers trainings to our farmers on good agricultural practices. The main aim is to have high-yielding coffee farms.
The cooperative has a savings and credit unit as part of the cooperative business, providing loans to farmers during the planting and harvest season. Farmers have invested in other income-generating activities.
