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…
Category Archives: Origin Focus
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…
More on Vietnam’s Coffee History – Coming Up!
For more on the fascinating details of Vietnam’s coffee history, please stay tuned for my special 5-part article series written for the Tea & Coffee Trade Journal on Vietnam, coming…
Coffee Production in Tanzania
East African grower Tanzania has long been famous for producing top quality coffees for the specialty market. Most of the Tanzanian peaberry coffee is consistently snapped off by buyers from…
New Coffee In Tanzania at Mt Kilimanjaro
Mt Kilimanjaro has been the symbol of coffee for Tanzania since coffee was first planted here in the late 1890s. But following years of socialist-inspired rule from the late 1960s…
Elephant Friendly Coffee at Tanzania’s Oldeani Coffee Estate
Women do all the manual coffee sorting, like here at Oldeani Estate just next to the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater. The tiny Oldeani region is only home to about a dozen…