President Museveni's speech at the G-25 Africa Coffee Summit:
I welcome you most warmly for agreeing to have this Conference in Uganda.
Robusta coffee (emwanyi), is indigenous to Uganda. Coffee is not a food but a beverage.
Nevertheless, that beverage, is quite useful as a stimulant that is friendly to the human body.
Especially people in cold countries, need this stimulant. It is the richer people, that can afford to buy coffee. People with less incomes, tend to
drink tea ─ another beverage.
Some years ago, the global demand of coffee was 118million bags of 60kgs each. The global demand is now 160million bags of 60kgs each. Why?
Apparently, as already pointed out above, affluence converts some of the tea drinkers into coffee drinkers. This trend would, therefore, be good for
the coffee producing countries like Uganda.
However, out of the US$460billion global coffee value, the coffee producing countries only take US$25billion and Africa gets only US$2.4billion, with US$845million going to Uganda because we are now producing 8million, 60kgs each, bags plus now. A non-coffee producing country like Germany, earns US$6.85billion!!
This is part of the iniquities of the present global parasitic system.
Global affluence will benefit everybody. Down with Imperialism, down with parasitism, long live the win-win strategy.