ORIGIN FOCUS: VIETNAM
Vietnam first started growing coffee in 1856, decades before other coffee producing countries much more famous for its beans like Kenya and Tanzania embarked on coffee cultivation, yet as a…
Vietnam’s Coffee Boom Designed to Target Poverty Eradication
The “Coffee Development Plan” was put into motion by Vietnam’s Agriculture Ministry in Hanoi between 1970 and 1971, well before the official end of the Vietnam War in April 1975….
Vietnam is the World’s 2nd Largest Coffee Grower
The first new coffee plantings were launched in northern Nghe An province as early as 1973. After the end of the war the Vietnamese government quickly moved into the Central…
Vietnam’s “Mr Coffee”
An agricultural specialist and soil expert Doan Trieu Nhan is the chief architect behind the Coffee Development Plan. But across Asia’s coffee industry he is simply known as Vietnam’s “Mr…
Vietnam Started To Expand Arabica Coffee Area In 1989
By 1989 Vietnam decided to start expanding the Arabica coffee growing area as well. When coffee was first introduced to Vietnam over 150 years ago by French colonialists it was…
Vietnam Arabica Coffee Mostly Grown By Ethnic Minorities
The core-root of Vietnam’s coffee policies was never about market dominance, but rather always about “social development” and when the government launched the expansion plan for Arabica it was all…
Vietnam Picks Up New Coffee Growth In Recent Years
Vietnam has today by far consolidated its position as the world’s second largest coffee grower and it’s one of only a handful of producing countries that in recent years has…
Vietnam Coffee Quality And Sustainability All Growing
Since the 2000-2004 coffee crisis when prices crashed to historic lows and caused social disaster in producing countries, Vietnam’s government has embarked on ambitious policies to promote sustainable practices and…
Vietnam Coffee Production Today Between 23M-25M Bags
There is no denying Vietnam’s fast growth in the last 30 years of coffee statistics, but one of the most mis-reported myths about the Vietnamese coffee boom is that it…
Uganda 2012-13 Coffee Crop On Track To Rise 6.5% To 3.4M Bags
JULY 20 (SpillingTheBeans)–Coffee production in Uganda in the current 2012-13 crop cycle is on track to reach between 3.3 million and 3.4 million 60-kilogram bags, up at least 6.5 percent…