Farmers harvest coffee in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. (Photo baolamdong.vn) Located in Dinh Lac commune’s Tan Lac 1, Tan Lac 3 and Tan Lac 4villages, the area is cultivated by 325 households, four co-operatives and sixcoffee producing and processing establishments.
In the hi-tech coffee growing area, coffee growing households usemachines to till the land and use automatic and semi-automatic chemicalspraying mechanisms to prevent and control diseases. They also use compostedanimal manure to fertilise coffee.
Up to 90% of the area’s coffee beans are dried by driers.
The area is also equipped with automatic weather and soil moisturemonitoring facilities.
More farmers in Di Linh, which is the province’s largest coffeegrowing district, are using high technology to grow coffee to increase yieldand quality.
They have also linked with co-operatives and companies to securebuyers and ensure stable prices.
The district has more than 44,000ha of coffee, with an annualoutput of 144,000 tonnes a year.
Tran Suong in Di Linh’s Dinh Lạc commune has applied hightechnology to grow his 6ha coffee farm and get a high yield of 5 tonnes perhectare a crop.
He used automatic facilities to irrigate and fertilise coffeetrees, increased the use of organic fertilisers and reduced chemicalfertilisers.
The facilities helped him save irrigation water and labour costfor tending the farm, he said.
“Coffee planted to hi-tech farming methods is ripe evenly and hashigh quality, and it meets the requirements of export markets and has stablebuyers,” he said.
Coffee is one of Lam Dong’s key plants and the province has morethan 170,000ha of coffee, making it the country’s second largest coffeeproducer after its neighbouring province of Dak Lak.
The province’s Di Linh district, and Bao Loc and Da Lat cities arelocated 800-1,500 metres above sea level and have favourable conditions forcultivating coffee.
Farmers in the province have increased planting coffee underinternational standards in recent years.
They are growing 21,000ha of coffee to Rainforest standards andmore than 53,000ha of coffee to the common code for the coffee community (4C).
The province’s coffee has the highest yield and quality in thecountry.
Coffee production value accounts for 60% of the province’sagriculture production value./.
VNA
