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The high price of pepper, combined with a drop in coffee prices, has pushed many farmers to switch to cultivating pepper vines.

The first Vietnam International Coffee and Dessert Fair will take place at Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre from June 8-10.

More than 115,000 hectares of coffee trees across the Central Highlands are suffering water shortages, as recent rains failed to ease drought.

Credits provided by banks have generally met the capital demand of businesses, cooperatives and farm households to produce, sell, process and export coffee.

The first Vietnam International Café Show is taking place in the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City from May 12-14.

The People’s Committee of Long An province on March 29 launched the Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation (VnSAT) project in the Mekong Delta locality.

A project to replace old, low-yield coffee plants in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong was launched at a conference on March 15.

The Vietnam International Cafe Show is debuting this year on May 12-14 at the Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center in HCM City.

Singapore is expected to be an important gateway for Vietnamese coffee and other farm produce to increase their presence in the Asian market in addition to traditions ones like Europe and the US.

The Tay Nguyen Central Highlands needs more irrigation facilities to serve the farming of coffee, one of the main exports of the region.

The volume of coffee exports from Laos has decreased over the past couple of years due to a slump in coffee prices on the world market, according to the Lao Coffee Association (LCA).

Starbucks Vietnam on December 29 introduced Starbucks Reserve® Vietnam Da Lat, its first single-origin coffee from the country, which will go on sale at its Vietnamese stores from January 4, 2016.

The Vietnam National Coffee Corporation (Vinacafe) will be equitised in 2017, following a directive of the government on restructuring the HCM City-based company.

The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has worked with several Vietnamese partners to develop the value chain in agriculture production.

The global market share of Vietnamese coffee has shrunk from 22 percent in 2014 to 18 percent this year even though the country is still the world’s second biggest coffee exporter.

Coffee bean output in the 2015-16 crop in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is likely to reach 440,000 tonnes, a decrease of 14,000 tonnes from the last crop.

The local coffee industry should reform production and processing of coffee products to gain added value from those products, experts said.

Vietnam has risen to fourth place among instant coffee exporters worldwide in 2015, with total expected shipment of 675,000 tonnes, up 25 percent from previous year.

Vietnamese coffee and investment opportunities in the industry were introduced at the 15th Seoul International Café Show, which wrapped up in the Republic of Korea on November 15.

The coffee sector aims to develop the coffee processing system in a bid to increase the added value of domestic coffee products, an official has said.