The seventh annual Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival will be held on March 9-16, 2019 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak with a wide range of activities featuring the local specialty.
Hanoi (VNA) - The seventh annual Buon Ma Thuot coffee festival willbe held on March 9 - 16, 2019 in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lakwith a wide range of activities featuring the local specialty.
The festival will include an opening ceremony, a closing ceremony, the 2019 DakLak investment promotion conference, an exhibition on coffee, a seminar on thedevelopment of Vietnamese specialty coffee, an exhibition on the world’s coffeehistory, a street festival, a contest for farmers, a Vietnamese specialtycoffee quality competition, free coffee tasting, a Buon Don elephant festival,and an international paragliding contest.
The annual event aims to promote Buon Ma Thuot coffee brand, develop Vietnamspecialty coffee and gradually turn Buon Ma Thuot city into a destination forcoffee aficionados worldwide, contributing to affirm Vietnamese coffee’sposition on the global market.
It also aims to honour domestic coffee growers, processors and traders whileencouraging the community to join hands to develop coffee culture.
Coffee was first cultivated in Vietnam in 1857. To date, Vietnam’s coffeegrowing areas reached 20,000ha. The country exports 1.8 million tonnes ofcoffee beans, raking in 3.2 billion USD per year. Vietnam is currently theworld’s second largest coffee exporter, after Brazil.
Vietnam exported1.46 million tonnes of coffee worth 2.77 billion USD in the first nine months of 2018, an increase of 20.1 percent in volume and 0.4 percent invalue compared to the same period last year.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak boasts the country’s largestcoffee-growing area, with a total area of about 190,000 hectares, producing 450,000tonnes of coffee beans annually. -VNA
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