Some 40 coffee farmers in Mubende have benefited from a government donation of sh50m. This is in pursuit of the strategic policy of planting better quality clonal coffee which is more resistant to disease than the traditional varieties. He added that the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) had distributed about 40,000 seedlings to the farmers as they wait for more seeds later this month. He also added that private nursery operators had been approached to supplement seeds from UCDA.