Uganda moves into the world of chocolate

Mukono, Uganda

ON a sprawling, lush cocoa plantation in Mukono outside the Ugandan capital Kampala, farmers have been sampling chocolate for the first time ever.

"When we gave our farm manager the first product to taste, his face was so amazing; he was saying 'really this is coming out from what we are doing?'" said Felix Okuye, 28, the executive director and co-founder of startup Pink Food Industries.

"The taste of the chocolate and the taste that is familiar to him with the cocoa from the pods are two different things. The foreigners hav…