Uganda, April 20 -- While Mr Rogers Wasibi has been a coffee farmer all his life, nothing has come out of it. If it was not the bad prices, roads, weather or poor-quality farm inputs, it was the middlemen who took everything.

"Some farmers were selling coffee 'flowers', others berries as soon as they ripened to the middlemen; yet it was hard to quantify so they ended up making little or no profit," he said.

Mr Ronald Kyozira and his fellow farmers in Bulunguli village, Bugweri District had similar challenges. Additionally, some middlemen baited the farmers by bringing and selling them seeds on the premise that they lower their selling prices. Having no easier way to get agro-inputs due to bad roads, they had no choice but to give in.

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