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Much needs to be done to raise the value of Vietnamese coffee in the international market, experts said at a workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on March 4.

Vietnam exported 180,000 tonnes of coffee worth 393 million USD in February, representing a rise of 28.7% in volume and 22% in value on-year, according to figures given by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

A total of 37 international delegations grouping 229 people have confirmed their attendance at the 8th Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival slated for March 10 – 14 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, said the provincial Department of Foreign Affairs.

Vietnamese iced coffee has been named as one of the best coffee in the world by TasteAtlas, an international food magazine.

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Vietnamese iced coffee has been named as one of the best coffee in the world by TasteAtlas, an international food magazine.

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The 8th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee festival aims to promote the local coffee brand and gradually turns Buon Ma Thuot into one of the world’s leading coffee destinations, thereby contributing to raising the value and position of Vietnamese coffee in the world market, an official has said.

The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has recognised a 371.6ha coffee growing area in Di Linh district as a hi-tech coffee growing area.

Vietnamese coffee businesses are attending Laos’s Bolaven coffee 2023 festival which is underway from February 2-4 in the southern province of Champasak of Laos.

The 8th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in 2023, themed "Buon Ma Thuot - Destination of the world coffee", will take place in Buon Ma Thuot city and several other localities of the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 10 – 14, heard a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on February 3.

An app introducing coffee and tourism of Buon Ma Thuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak debuted on January 18.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak – Vietnam’s largest coffee-producing region - is striving to make its capital of Buon Ma Thuot a coffee city of the world with distinctive identities.

Starbucks is committed to expanding further in Vietnam with its plan to open the 100th store by the end of the second quarter this year – a decade after the first shop opened in Ho Chi Minh City in February 2013.

Tourism and Creative Economy Minister of Indonesia Sandiaga Uno on January 4 said that coffee tourism had the potential to be developed or adopted in other regions.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak – Vietnam’s capital of coffee – pocketed 798 million USD in coffee exports in 2022, accounting for 53.2% of the locality’s total export turnover.

Palm and rubber farmers in the Thai province of Krabi have been urged to grow coffee instead, as demand for the beverage is rising faster in Asia than in other parts of the world.

Vietnam is likely to rake in 4 billion USD from exporting coffee this year.

Vietnamese coffee industry has made steady headway in the international competitiveness rankings with a processing capacity of 2.36 million tonnes per year, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien.