The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, António Francisco de Assis, visited on 09 August 2023, the Uganda National Coffee Research Institute in the Mukono district, 140 kilometres east of Kampala, the capital of the Republic of Uganda.
There, the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry held a meeting with the institution's management and researchers and took part in a fact-finding tour of the different areas of the Institute, whose research is centered on creating new plants that are resistant to disease and at the same time much more productive, as well as creating other consumer products derived from coffee.
According to the team of Ugandan researchers, as with coffee, the National Research Institute is also working with cocoa to find innovative situations that can add value to the production chain, fight disease and commercialisation, with the basis of the research being guided by market needs.
At the end of the visit the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, António Francisco de Assis, expressed his interest in establishing a cooperation partnership with the Coffee Research Institute of Uganda in the process of revitalising the national coffee sector.
Engineer António Francisco de Assis, was in Uganda to attend the Second Summit of the group of 25 African coffee producing countries - G25, representing the President of the Republic, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, heading a delegation that included the Director General of the National Coffee Institute, Vasco Gonçalves Joaquim António, and senior officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
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