The higher price of Robusta coffee brings great benefits to Việt Nam''s coffee industry because about 94 per cent of Vietnam''s coffee growing areas have planted this variety.
The seventh Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival will be held in March in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak with a wide range of activities featuring local specialties, including locally produced coffee beans.
Nestlé Vietnam has organised a tour for international journalists to the Nescafé Plan sustainable coffee cultivation project in the Central Highlands provinces to learn about the process of creating clean and high-quality Vietnamese coffee beans in a closed value chain...
Viet Nam aims to increase the value of coffee products by processing more than 25 per cent of its coffee beans by 2020, according to the Processing and Market Development Authority.
Maize imports in the first five months of 2015 are on the rise but rice
exports are on the decline, according to figures from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has unveiled a
master plan (until 2020 with vision extended to 2030) to develop the
coffee industry, focusing mainly on processing as the main value-adding
measure.
In London, prices for Robusta coffee have surged to their highest level
in five months thanks to a lack of selling from Viet Nam primarily due
to the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Vietnamese farmers and exporters halted
their selling in part because...
About 1,500 coffee farmers in Viet Nam''s Central Highland province of
Lam Dong are set to receive free training in agricultural techniques to
help boost their crop yields and quality of coffee beans.