Opportunity Mannya Transformation Services in  Kifamba Sub-county, Rakai District has as its objective and raison d’être the empowerment of small-scale coffee farmers to enable them to receive just recompense for their labour, and to enable them to access markets, locally and worldwide, for their small locally grown organic coffee holdings.

In order to achieve these aims Mannya coffe farmers utilise the coffee factory which is operated by Opportunity Mannya Transformation Services.

Most coffee farmers in Rakai District and beyond have only small holdings, they have no means of transport for their coffee, they lack the ability to process their coffee and thereby add value to it. They lack access to markets and to market information, they lack the financial reserves to tide them and their families over to next harvest.

The coffee industry in Mannya and the neighbouring areas still has huge potential.  Many small-holder farmers are obliged to sell unprocessed coffee to middlemen at very low prices, thus losing not only profits but also by-products (coffee husks, jobs in the processing factories) to other areas. However, by combining their coffee harvest with that of other small-scale coffee farmers then hulling and grading the coffee significantly improved prices for their coffee can be obtained.

‘Alone, we can do so little. Together, we can do so much.’

– Helen Keller

Opportunity Mannya Transformation Services opens Mannya to the world. It enables farmers in the Mannya area and surrounds to bring their coffee to the coffee factory at Mannya and to receive payment. Their coffee will be hulled and graded at preferential rates, and further processed, ground and marketed worldwide through its market linkage with NUCAFE. Mannya coffee will be packaged and sold internationally under the name of Mannya Coffee.

Mannya Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Society is premised on the principle of the farmer ownership model which is inspired by NUCAFE, that is, it is designed to empower smallholder farmers, to enable them to take full charge of their coffee farm business activities in relation to fulfilling market and consumer demands.