JULY 26–September Arabica coffee closed down 2.25 cent per pound on Friday at $1.2225 per pound at the ICE futures exchange in New York. Trading this week also leaves…
JULY 26 (SpillingTheBeans)–Cash differentials paid for arabica coffee in Central America and other Latin American Arabica origins strengthened this week even as New York futures prices hold on to most gains accumulated during the…
Starting this week, stay tuned for the publication of my latest coffee reports about the new 2013-14 crops in Honduras, Rwanda and Indonesia, Top-10 Price Trends Setters, origin insights from…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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 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…