Coffee processing in Vietnam Coffee prices have fallen continuously

In the field of coffee processing, there have been some dilapidated processing plants since 1975, and there are several processing plants in northern Tongjiao, Fukui and other places, whose equipment was made in East Germany from 1960 to 1962. In the south, the old factories left by former landowners such as ROSSI,DELPHANTE are also small. While expanding the coffee planting area, Yue also began to build new coffee processing plants, first producing some stand-alone equipment, and later imitating the production line according to the HANGXA style, the main manufacturers are the Haiphong May 1 Machinery Factory, the Ministry of Industry A74 Plant in Shoude, Ho Chi Minh City, and so on. In recent years, many companies and farms in Vietnam have imported new processing plants with relatively complete equipment from Germany and Brazil, and imported more than a dozen sets of coffee processing production lines from PINHALENSE of Brazil. Since then, more and more factories began to imitate and improve their own production of Brazilian equipment. In recent years, the processing capacity of Vietnamese coffee has been greatly improved, which can guarantee the export of 150000 to 200000 tons of coffee kernels per year. In addition, there are many enterprises with inadequate equipment, which only rely on a few stand-alone machines for processing, and purchase newly processed coffee from farmers to ensure export standards. The coffee purchased from the private sector is mainly handled by each farmer through the cement yard or soil yard. Farmers in many places use small grinders to grind dried coffee fruits into coffee kernels and sell them to coffee buyers. This kind of processing leads to the instability of product quality. Coffee produced by companies and farms is usually of good quality and beautiful appearance, such as thang loi, phuoc an, viet duc, buon ho, d'dao and so on, which are recognized by customers. Generally speaking, the sale of coffee has not been carried out in accordance with national standards for a long time, and the quality provisions in the sale and purchase contract are very simple, which are only determined through consultation between the buyer and the seller, which can not effectively promote the improvement of coffee quality and the level of the processing industry.

In recent years, the above situation has improved. As the supply exceeds demand, the price of coffee continues to fall, causing the buyer to demand higher quality and to increase the requirements to the seller, such as the general request to try the sample, which is used as a basis for settlement and payment. The coffee industry in Vietnam must improve its processing level in time. In addition to customers demanding higher quality standards, the Vietnamese coffee industry also faces problems in the world coffee market:

The Association of Coffee producing countries (ACPC) supports some Chinese and American coffee producing countries on eliminating low-quality coffee from the world coffee market in order to stabilize the balance of supply and demand in the market.

EU countries will apply OCHRATOXYN A pollution targets from January 1, 2003, and will destroy substandard coffee on a large scale.

The above requirements of Vietnamese coffee need to be greatly improved in the field of processing in order to continue to adapt and develop.

At present, Vietnamese coffee is still mainly dry-processed ROBUSTA, coffee purchased back to use solar energy to dry. If there is continuous overcast and rainy weather during the harvest season, burn coal or firewood to dry. There are also some enterprises that use blenders for wet processing. The ARABICA with small output is processed completely by wet process. SORTEX color sorter is used for classification in many places.