Tag: Vietnam

The Global Coffee Trade in Numbers

Coffee has become the most consumed beverage worldwide and the second most traded commodity after oil. This revolutionary trend of global coffee industry changed the perspective of how we treat, consume or appreciate coffee. Brazil and Vietnam can be considered the usual suspects in the chain of coffee production. They have constantly exported the largest amount of coffee, while for the year

Vietnam’s robusta coffee production to be affected by El Niño

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Serious water shortages brought by the El Niño weather phenomenon are expected to hit coffee production in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the country’s key growing region, in the first half of 2016, an industry body said on Tuesday, according to the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association. “The situation with drought will seriously affect robusta coffee production in the Central Highlands,” the association said

South Korea under the microscope

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Cafe Show 2015, the 15th international and the largest annual exhibition of South Korea’s coffee industry, registered the presence of about 360 enterprises from 35 countries and about 100,000 visitors, as reported by VietnamNews. It confirmed that South Korea is a potential market for coffee exports, with a total consumption of coffee valued at US$4 billion in 2012, the 11th largest consumer of coffee in