Three Ugandan companies and a Chinese enterprise have signed various agreements to export coffee to the Asian country for value addition.
This was revealed by Vice President Jessica Alupo who witnessed the signing ceremony in Beijing on Monday.
“I witnessed this morning the signing of the Performance Agreements between China Construction and Communications Company (CCCC) and the three Ugandan coffee companies, i.e., Platinum Commodities, New Cafe, and Mwanyi Terimba, to buy Ugandan coffee beans for value addition and branding promotion,” Alupo posted on her official handle on X.
She said the ceremony took place at CCCC HQS, Beijing.
Earlier Alupo had “productive meetings with Chinese investors.”
“I have called upon them to continue supporting infrastructural, industrialization, and digitization strategies in Uganda,” the vice president noted.
She also said she had had a bilateral meeting with Han Zheng, the Vice President of the People’s Republic of China, at Diaoyutai State Guest House, Beijing.
“Our meeting centred on industrialization, infrastructure, digitization, etc,” she stated
Alupo arrived in Beijing late last week for the Heads of State Summit on the Forum of China-Africa Cooperation.
She was received at Beijing Capital Airport by the Chinese Ambassador to Uganda and Gen. Jeje Odongo, the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
China and Uganda have had warm relations for decades, resulting in investments worth billion of dollars in the Pearl of Africa.