Coffee festival to kick off in December

As many as 150 domestic and foreign businesses will showcase their coffee products at the 2nd Buon Me Thuot coffee festival to be held in Central Highlands Dak Lak province from December 10-14, 2008.

Seminars on sustainable development of the coffee industry, coffee processing and coffee export will be held on this occasion, said the provincial People’s Committee.

A contest to honour outstanding coffee makers and a photo contest on coffee images will also be organised during the event.

Dak Lak presently owns 180,000ha of coffee, accounting for 35 percent of the nation’s total coffee area. It also makes up 60 percent of the country’s high quality coffee products.

The province plans to reduce the cultivation area to 150,000 ha by 2015 and use intensive farming methods to harvest more than 400,000 tonnes of coffee bean per year.