Sustainability critical to success of Vietnamese coffee industry

Vietnam had 710,000 hectares of coffee with a yield of 2.7 tonnes per hectare in 2021, three times higher than the average global yield.

HANOI: Vietnam's coffee industry is making steady headway in the international competitiveness rankings with a processing capacity of 2.36 million tonnes per year, according to Agriculture and Rural Development Deputy Minister Phung Duc Tien.

Speaking at the international conference on coffee on Sunday, the deputy minister said Vietnam had 710,000 hectares of coffee with a yield of 2.7 tonnes per hectare in 2021, three times higher than the average global yield. Between 2021 and 2022, the country produced 1.7 million tonnes and exported US$3.9bil (RM17bil) worth of coffee, up 31.3% year-by-year.