Vietnam: Number 2 in Coffee Production?

Yes, it actually is true, even though Vietnam is not normally one of the countries that you hear about the top of the coffee harvesting lists. Number one is Brazil, and number two is Vietnam, though Vietnam primarily does export Robusta coffee beans. Robusta is not preferred by coffee connoisseurs because it is the cheaper variety with higher caffeine content to the more premium Arabica, but currently, Vietnam is working to boost their coffee economy to get the number one spot by cultivating Arabica plantations. Their future hopes are for Arabica to account for at least a third of their crops by 2010. They are in a tough spot, especially since they have been blamed for pushing mass amounts of Robusta onto the market so that coffee prices have dropped worldwide, but they are working to remedy that and get back on top by keeping labor costs low and technological advancements high to hopefully get to number one!

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