HCM City (VNA) - Real Bean Coffee, Trung Nguyen Legend and LamantCoffee won the gold, silver and bronze prizes at the first Vietpresso Contestheld in Ho Chi Minh City last week.
Organised by Central Retail Vietnam together with 15 prestigious coffee brandsand shops on the sidelines of Vietnam Foodexpo 2019, the competition sought toadd value to Vietnamese coffee brands so that more higher-value coffee productscan be exported instead of raw materials.
Ta Hoang Linh, Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Europe -America market department, said while Vietnam leads the world in robusta coffeeexports, the value is not commensurate.
Last year, Vietnam exported 1.88 million tonnes of coffee worth 3.5 billion USD,an increase of 20 percent in volume but only 1 percent in value.
The VietPresso contest was organised to select some of the best quality coffeeproducts for promoting in European countries during the Vietnam coffeepromotion programme next year, he said./.
Vietnam, China cooperate in tea, coffee production
Vietnamese and Chinese agricultural bodies have co-organised a forum highlighting the cooperation between enterprises from the two countries in tea and coffee production and distribution.