According to Monitor on June 15th, a senior government official in Uganda announced on Thursday that as of March this year, the country's exports of goods and services have achieved a significant increase of 27% in the past 12 months. Finance Minister Mattia Casaya disclosed in the release of the 2025/26 fiscal year national budget that the export value has jumped from $9.56 billion in March 2024 to $11.8 billion in March 2025. He emphasized that gold, coffee, industrial products, cocoa beans, dairy products, base metals and their products, sugars, and fish products constitute Uganda's main export categories. Casaya specifically pointed out that coffee exports have more than doubled, and the annual export value is expected to climb to the $2 billion mark. For this reason, I call on the people of Uganda to expand the scale of coffee cultivation, "he added," and more importantly, to increase the added value of coffee before export in order to obtain more substantial profits.
