The Parliamentary Committee on Presidential Affairs visited Africa Coffee Park and toured the processing plant.
The committee saw the technology and the processes end to end — roasting, soluble coffee production, and the packing lines that turn what comes off the farm into a finished product with a label on it.
The argument the park exists to make is a simple one: Uganda must not only grow coffee, it must manufacture. A country that exports raw beans and imports finished coffee is exporting its own margin along with the crop.
Showing that case to the people who set policy, on the factory floor rather than in a slide deck, is worth a great deal more than describing it.
