In east Uganda, Mary Butsina has been surrounded by coffee her whole life, and now she supports her family by producing it.
In Bududa, a lush yet landslide-prone district of eastern Uganda, Mary Butsina and a growing number of other women farmers are building their livelihoods around coffee. “I’m supporting all of my 10 children with it,” says the 36-year-old, holding a red bucket, Mount Elgon looming behind her.
She rises early every day to pick the arabica coffee cherries. “It’s hard work but when you concentrate it can become easy,” says Mary. After gathering the ripe fruit, she puts it in a bucket of water to weed out the unhealthy cherries. If one has been damaged by an insect or disease, it floats and is removed before the good stuff is put through a hand-powered pulper, which separates the outer part of the fruit from the seed, or coffee ‘bean’.
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