CAFETIERE

Vietnam

Let me see. Ah.. Vietnam, a very fast growing country now in the South East Asia, known now as "the next Asian Tiger". Many investor now come to the Vietnam, specially Singapore and Indonesia. Although, the country still a communist country, the recent year they had their economic access opened to other country just like China did. It is why they developing very fast, even more fast than Indonesia, and probably Thailand and other country in asia.

We are not discussing about the country economic and political condition right now,  we are discussing about their coffee! As usual, it was the French which introduced the arabica coffee to this Indochina colonies.  Which replanted with robusta since the arabica succumbeb to rust. 

A reference mentions that in 1980 Vietnam was 42nd in the world coffee production. In 1982 it exported 67,000 bags. In 1988, with the imminent break-up of the Soviet Union, the Vietnamese government encouraged private enterprise, and by the 1993 it exported over three million bags of robusta, a figure which the 1997 crop saw more the double to 6.893 million bags, putting it third in world production behind Brazil and Colombia, with Indonesia (which that time Indonesia faced the reformation movement that turned the country into chaos) close behind.  And, while the coffee crop was burgeoning, so was the rice, as Vietnam became the third largest exporter after the US and Thailand.