The Monitor (Kampala)
27 March 2008
In Masabaland, we cherish two important things: Coffee and circumcision. The coffee used to be sold through primary societies to Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) and in turn the primary societies would avail interest-free credit, keep savings and coffee stocks of farmers. The warehousing system that was later started by the Ministry of Trade existed in Bugisu as early as 1954 when BCU started.
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