As Uganda heats up, pests and disease flourish to attack its top export crop
A coffee farmer inspects his crop. According to experts, it appears that the warmer than usual weather in Uganda is creating a breeding ground for pests and disease. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
When Abudu Zikusoka was a small boy his father would bring people to their home in Ndesse village in Central Uganda’s Mukono district. He would watch as they packed the family’s harvested coffee into sacks and then loaded it onto their bicycles.
“I used to see one of them giving daddy money from which he took out some coins to give my sister,” Zikusoka says. “When my brother started going to school, daddy continued with the practice until one day I asked my sister where she was taking the money,” he remembers.
