Na hiyo ni maendeleo

By WAMORONJIA
Published July 30, 2009

Last week, UG unleashed a coffee roasting n processing factory in Kampala. UG has baller status as mmoja ya Africa’s top kahawa xporters. According 2 the International Coffee Organisation’s web site (www.ico.org), UG chomoad approximately 2.9m bags (combo of robusta and Arabica varieties) btwn June 07-May-08, 3.2m bags btwn June 08-May 09 and 2m bags btwn Oct 08-May 09.

Lakini the prices majuu r not only mbof, they seesaw kama kitu ingine. According 2 www.ico.org, the ‘98 NY & Germany average daily prices were US cents 135 per pound and US cents 82 for Arabica and robusta respectively. Arabica’s average daily bei shukad from ‘99, fikaing US cents 64 in ‘03, be4 climbing to US cents 114 in ‘06. Last month it was US cents 149. For Robusta tha bei shukad from US cents 82 hadi US cents 67 in ‘06, before climbing 2 US cents 73 in June ‘09.

UG is not tha only miro country 2 hook up tha rest of the world with a valuable burungu in raw form: SA supplies gold, DRC xports timber, for example. Worse, our overseas clayos readily welcome Africa’s raw materials to tha point of duty free access, but dare we jaribu 2 add value and those roadblocks go up chap chap. It would be hasara tupu coz we Alafu tha weather feels nothing, if we starve coz of floods or drought that haribu these crops, shauri yetu.

Frm day 1 African leaders have been heckling how we need 2 add more value within tha continent despite these risks. Bots, the world’s largest diamond producer, funguad a diamond sorting n valuing centre in ‘08. UG imedo poa 2 fuata that move, n otha African countries should piga UG support by buying this kahawa, Migingo island dispute or not! Pia inafaa they shtuka n photocopy UG n Bots.

These measures shud also xtend to sports too so that 1 day, African footballers n runners will also earn a mzuri living on the continent, not in London n the rotten apple.

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