Central Highlands: high coffee prices offset declining output
Dak Lak (VNA) – A
significant increase in coffee prices in the Central Highlands has helped
offset a decline in output, according to the Steering Committee for the Central
Highlands Region.
The committee said a long
drought significantly reduced the 2016-2017 coffee harvest.
For the whole region, the output
of 135,000 hectares of coffee hit by drought fellby up to 50 percent, while another
7,894 hectares died of drought.
DakLak, a major coffee producer
of the country, has nearly 69,000 hectares of coffee hit by drought, of which
5,570 hectares suffer from complete loss.
However, coffee bean priceshave
been at a five-year peak, increasing from 41,000VND to 42,000VND per kilogramme,
bringing goodprofits to farmer households.
According to the steering
committee, the Central Highlands region has a total coffee area of 573,400
hectares, of which 532,499 hectares have been in harvest, with an estimated
output of over 1 million tonnes of coffee beans.
DakLakboasts the largest coffee area yielding the biggest output, with more than
453,000 tonnes of coffee beans.-VNA