Coffee

Mai Hong Quan, a farmer in Nam Nung, Lam Dong province, is spending three years replanting an aging coffee garden with the dwarf variety "Xanh lun (blue dwarf type)." Those around him recommended high-yielding varieties, but he did not rush, moving to a full switch only after judging the growth of trees he had planted on a trial basis. Cof...

ソンラやダクラクへの一極集中を避けたい日本のコーヒー・ナッツバイヤーへ。北西部ディエンビエン省がアラビカとマカダミアを軸に描く輸出産地構想を、面積・計画・調達視点で読み解く。

The steep slopes of Son La province in northwestern Vietnam are changing from fields of maize and cassava into a growing area for coffee and fruit trees. The Vietnamese newspaper Dan Viet took up the transformation of the Na San plateau in Chieng Mung district, formerly Mai Son district, reporting how the cultivation value of the sloped land has jumped...

Pruned branches and leaves from coffee plantations and the husks left after processing used to be nuisances, merely burned in a corner of the field or left to pile up. But in Vietnam's main growing areas, these "things that were meant to be thrown away" are being remade into organic fertilizer, curbing the use of chemical fertilizer while even pushing up farmers' incomes...

What comes to mind at the words "Vietnamese coffee" is probably the mass-produced Robusta that underpins canned and instant coffee. Outside that conventional image, Arabica farmers in the mountains of Quang Tri province in central Vietnam are deliberately switching to a cultivation that "returns forest" to the field. A Vietnamese agriculture-specialist med...

Trung Nguyen Legend has broken ground on a Robusta deep-processing plant in Dak Lak province, investing 98.9 billion dong (about 6.09 billion yen). We unpack what the new spray-drying capacity of 1,000 kg/h will demand of Japanese roasters' and trading companies' raw-material sourcing.

In Tu Mo Rong, Quang Ngai province (the former Kon Tum highlands), the budget for ceremonial celebratory flowers was converted into one million coffee seedlings distributed free to the Xo Dang people. It started on about 200 ha, with 1,000 ha of new planting targeted for 2030. We unpack this resident-led formation of a growing area from the perspective of Japanese roasters.

Carrying the Arabica of Son La province in northern Vietnam, a 25-year-old barista heads to the Brewers Cup world championship. We unpack the growing area's move into specialty coffee and the implications for Japanese roasters and importers.

In an organic-coffee demonstration in Gia Lai province, the target yield was exceeded by 58%, making it more profitable than conventional farming. We interpret, from a Japanese coffee-sourcing perspective, this small-farmer partnership model that, with EU organic plus QR tracking, signed a long-term purchase contract with a major company.

ハノイ生まれの「エッグコーヒー」は、濃く苦いコーヒーの上に、卵黄を泡立てた甘いクリームをのせた一杯です。卵とコーヒーという意外な組み合わせながら、味はまるでティラミスのよう。いまではベトナムを代表するご当地コーヒーとして、世界中の旅行者...