As Vietnam’s coffee exports surge, supply issues remain the biggest threat

VIETNAM’S rich, earthy robusta coffee is breaking new ground in international markets despite pronounced and continuing challenges to its export industry.

While the country ranks second only to Brazil among the world’s top coffee suppliers, Vietnam still faces multiple systemic issues holding it back from moving up the coffee value chain.

According to latest figures from Vietnam’s General Statistics Office, Vietnamese coffee exports have seen a marked rise this year. Vietnamese producers shipped more than 1.1 million tonnes of coffee overseas over the first seven months of 2022 – a jump of 17.2 per cent above last year’s exports for the same period with a total value of US$2.56 billion. Those takings represent a value-per-tonne increase of nearly 22.5 per cent compared to the same period in 2021.