The most serious challenge facing Uganda's coffee industry is low production levels due to the aging coffee tree population and drought in the mountainous regions where Arabica coffee grows. Arabica coffee plants have an economic life of approximately 40 years. However, the average Arabica coffee tree in Uganda was planted almost 50 years ago, thus exceeding its optimal biological level for coffee production (UCDA, 2015). Furthermore, in recent years drought in the Elgon region, the region of Uganda where the American coffee company Café Vianté obtains its beans, has damaged coffee shoots and increased the population of antestia insects, which attack the shoots . As a result, the amount of coffee exported has decreased by almost one million 60kg bags since 1997 (Ecel, 19,497). To combat this production slowdown, the Government of Uganda has sponsored replanting initiatives to replace unproductive elders