Exporters from the Central Highland province of Lam Dong grossed over
US$332 million in earnings from January to August, a year-on-year
increase of 76 per cent.
Viet Nam is targeting to apply sustainable production methods on
300,000ha of coffee by 2015, delegates told a forum organised in HCM
City on Wednesday.
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.
The recent destruction of some cacao farms by farmers in some central
and Central Highland provinces due to low profits shows that in
developing the cacao sector, haste indeed makes waste.