KAMPALA: Uganda’s July coffee export earnings shot up 26% year-on-year, helped by a 12% rise in volumes shipped thanks to a bumper harvest, industry regulator Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) said.

The country earned $105 million from the July shipments, up from $84 million last year, while export volumes during the month rose to 645,832 60-kg bags, UCDA said in a report late on Tuesday.

Uganda mostly cultivates the robusta variety and is Africa’s largest coffee exporter, followed by Ethiopia.

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The crop is among Uganda’s leading foreign exchange earners.

“The monthly coffee exports performance was higher than the previous year … partly on account of a good crop harvest in South-Western region and the prevailing good prices on the global scene,” UCDA said.