Storyline: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Uganda has become Africa's top coffee exporter, overtaking Ethiopia with a record-breaking 47,000 tonnes shipped in May, that raked in about 243 million U.S. dollars. The East African country exported nearly 800,000 bags in May, up from 550,000 bags in the same time last year, representing a 43 percent year-on-year increase. The Ugandan agriculture ministry says improved quality standards and strong government support helped the country become the continent's leading exporter. Uganda has an ambitious coffee sector roadmap, targeting production of around 20 million bags annually by 2030. Trade experts say tough quality controls are needed to achieve this. Uganda is expected to export 7 million bags of coffee this year, up from 5 million last year. Meanwhile, Ethiopia's export forecast for this year stands at around 4 million bags, still a significant shortfall compared to Uganda. But to maintain this milestone, Uganda will need to work hard to have its coffee bags rolling to the European market. Europe remains Uganda's biggest market globally, accounting for 67 percent of the country's exports. Shotlist: FILE: Uganda - Date Unknown: 1. Various of farmers harvesting coffee beans FILE: Uganda - Date Unknown 2. Various of workers transferring bags with words reading (English): "Coffee and Cocoa; Ugacof Ltd.; for export only" Uganda - Recent: 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Byaruhanga, coffee exporter (starting with shot 2): "We have a good budget supporting the National Coffee Research Institute for this time, and so we should be having very good planting material that is disease resistant. So you'll have something like they call it CWD (coffee with disease resistant) and they have developed about 10 varieties, they call them KR or Kituza Robusta, KR from 1-10, so these are really nice." FILE: Uganda - Date Unknown: 4. Various of people carrying bags of coffee beans 5. Bags of coffee beans 6. People showing coffee beans Uganda - Recent: 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Shinyekwa, head of trade and regional integration, Economic Policy Research Center in Uganda (starting with shot 6): "The issues of aggregation, so many farmers all over the whole place, was the aggregation process to make sure those things come through. We need to work on standards, you're not going to sell out when your standards are poor, that's extremely, extremely important. Then we also need to help the many SMEs which are about 80 or 90 percent of production in Uganda and trade to make sure that they comply with those international standards." FILE: Uganda - Date Unknown: 8. Various of farmers drying coffee beans. [Restrictions: No access Chinese mainland/Iran/Russia]