Innovative solutions to help famers replant ageing coffee trees

Coffee trees in Việt Nam are ageing and innovative technical solutions are needed to help farmers successfully replant them, a seminar, "Making use of plant protection products through drip irrigation system", heard in Đắc Lắc Province on Wednesday.

VN coffee industry has huge potential: seminar

The Vietnamese coffee industry has great potential to develop considering the size of the global market and the country’s small share in it, according to the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development.

VN coffee output likely to slow Viet Nam, the world's second largest coffee exporter, will likely see output drop by 20 percent next year as bad weather and old trees undermine production, growers said.

The ups and downs of coffee production Lots of coffee is being grown in the Central Highlands. However, there have been a few problems in the coffee plantations. Farmers say it would help a lot if some money was made available to them to grow more coffee because they cannot make money from new coffee plants until they have borne fruit.

Obstacles slow coffee replanting The replanting of old coffee trees, especially in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region, is making slow progress because of difficulties like diseases and a shortage of quality coffee strains and funds, experts have said.