Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Dak Lak (VNA) – The national project ondeveloping high-quality coffee has helped businesses and farmers applytechnologies in farming, cope with climate change, reduce production costs and improveeconomic efficiency in coffee production, heard a conference held in Buon MaThuot city, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, on December 29.
The project has also strengthened connectivity between businesses, cooperativesand farmers, while building brand names.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam is oneof the biggest coffee producers in general, and the biggest producer of robustain particular in the world.
Vietnamese coffee has been shipped to 80 countries and territories, withrevenue amounting to 2.85 billion USD in 2019, making up 7.8 percent of theworld’s coffee export value.
The domestic coffee sector has generated jobs for more than 600,000 households,contributing to socio-economic development and poverty reduction in the CentralHighlands and Northwestern regions, and others.
Thanks to the Government’s policies and efforts by enterprises and farms,coffee export turnover accounts for some 15 percent in the country’s totalagricultural export revenue, and coffee contributes more than 10 percent of theagricultural sector’s GDP.
In support of the coffee sector, the Prime Minister approved Decision No.787/QD-TTg dated June 5, 2017 to add coffee to the list of national productsunder the National Product Development Programme by 2020.
The project on high-quality coffee development (2018-2020) aims to promotehigh-quality, competitive and high value-added products.
Under the project, coffee productivity has increased rapidly, averaging 2.8tonnes per ha, and the rate of intensively processed coffee expanded from 5percent five years ago to 12 percent in 2020, according to Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh./.
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