Southeast Asian coffee Vietnamese coffee

Today's production power, tomorrow's production giant.

Perhaps influenced by French colonial rule, coffee grown in Vietnam has a French flavor. Arabica coffee was first brought to Vietnam by French missionaries, and more than 400,000 coffee trees were introduced to Vietnam between 1865 and 1876, planted near Tonkin Bay, mostly Java or Bourbon varieties.

At present, Vietnam's coffee production is growing. Among Vietnam's new export products, tea ranks first, coffee ranks second, and the main varieties produced are Robaishi coffee beans. In 1980, 66000 bags were exported, and in 1994, it soared to more than 200,000 tons. Ninety-six percent of Roscoff coffee comes from small farms, but some state-owned farms also grow coffee trees.

Vietnam produces up to 950 kilograms of coffee per hectare, and many of the newly planted coffee trees are Japanese invested.

Two years ago, Vietnam overtook Colombia in coffee bean production and ranked second in the world after Brazil, according to a survey. However, the tree species planted in Robusta still have a big gap with countries such as Colombia and Brazil in terms of coffee bean quality!