Uganda's July coffee exports up 27% on bumper harvest in southwest
KAMPALA, Aug 17 (Reuters) -Uganda's coffee exports jumped 27.2% year-on-year in July, helped by a good harvest from one of the producing regions, the state-run Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said on Saturday.
The east African country shipped a total of 821,593 60-kilogram bags, up 27.2% from volumes exported in the year-earlier period, the UCDA said in a report.
While the regulator did not give a reason for the jump, one industry source told Reuters the increase was driven by good yields in the country's southwest, one of the major growing regions.
Uganda earns around $1 billion annually from coffee shipments and the crop is one of the country's biggest foreign exchange earners.
Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Mike Harrison
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