Dave D'haeze

Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung/ Embdem, Drieshaus & Epping Consulting

This presentation aims to present to a wide range of sector stakeholders, especially farmers, policy makers, the industry, standards programs and donors a variety of approaches that may be applied to boost coffee production in Africa based on the Vietnamese experience. Vietnam has a very young history of coffee production at industrial scale. After...

After the reunion of North and South Vietnam in 1975, the area under small-holder, irrigated cultivation of Coffea canephora increased by a factor of 10 in the Central Highlands. The actual acreage under coffee in Dak Lak province is estimated to be over 260,000 ha, representing 60% of the national production, with 405,000 t per year for the world...

After the reunion of North and South Vietnam in 1975, the area under small-holder, irrigated cultivation of Robusta coffee increased by a factor of 10 in the Central Highlands. The actual coffee acreage in Dak Lak province is estimated to be over 260,000 ha, representing 60% of the national production, with 405,000 t year−1 for the world market. Vi...

An irrigation study was carried out to evaluate farmers’ irrigation practices on Rhodic Ferralsols which dominate the Dak Lak basalt plateau of Central Vietnam, where Robusta coffee has dramatically expanded over the last years. The experiment aimed at testing crop response on three irrigation application depths; 100 mm (advised dose), 80 and 60 mm...