No origin matches that.
Africa's largest coffee exporter, and one of the few places Robusta grows wild.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Uganda is a Robusta country with a serious Arabica sideline. Roughly five sixths of the crop is Robusta, grown around the Lake Victoria crescent and in the west; the rest is Arabica from Mount Elgon on the Kenyan border, the Rwenzori range, and West Nile in the north-west. Coffee is the country's leading export by value and is grown by well over a million households, almost all on smallholdings.
The country has a claim no other origin can make about Robusta: *Coffea canephora* grows indigenously in the forests around Lake Victoria, and the local material there represents genetic diversity for the species comparable to what Ethiopia holds for Arabica. That matters increasingly as breeders look for climate resilience, and it is why Ugandan Robusta is taken more seriously than the species' commodity reputation suggests.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
Bugisu and Sipi, on the Kenyan border — the country's Arabica heartland.
The western mountains on the Congolese border, growing both species.
The north-west, around Zombo and Nebbi — Arabica sold as Okoro.
The central Robusta belt, where the species also grows indigenously.
The Elgon Arabicas — often sold as Bugisu or Sipi Falls — are clean and bright, with lemon and blackcurrant acidity, brown-sugar sweetness and a medium body, close in register to a Kenyan without the intensity. Ugandan Robusta at its best is round rather than harsh: chocolate, cedar, dried fruit and a heavy body, and the washed lots are genuinely drinkable unblended.
Robusta was already growing wild and in cultivation before the colonial period; Arabica was introduced on Mount Elgon in the early twentieth century. A state marketing board controlled the trade until liberalisation in 1991, after which exports grew substantially. Coffee wilt disease destroyed a large share of the Robusta stock from the 1990s, and replanting with resistant material has driven much of the recent growth.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.