MAGNANIMOUS HISTORY
Not standing behind the native tea, coffee in Vietnam has gone through a long journey, witnessing the rises and falls in Vietnamese history.
Followed by the French priests, coffee came to Vietnam from 1857. Initially, coffee was planted in some northern provinces such as Tuyen Quang, Ninh Binh, Ha Nam ... Then gradually, the post of coffee expanded to the central provinces of such as such as Quang Tri, Quang Binh. After moving to the South of the Central Highlands and the South East, people realized that the Central Highlands was a right place to provide environmental, conditions, circumstances for coffee. And by nature, the Central Highlands became the capital of coffee in Vietnam.
It is possible to summarize the exploring and conquering journey of coffee in Vietnam through the following milestones:
- In 1857, coffee officially came to Vietnam
- In 1888, the first coffee post was built by French in Ke So, the North of Vietnam. At that time, the variety of planned coffee was Arbica coffee.
- In1908, the French brought 2 more variety of coffee to Vietnam: Robustavà Liberica
- In 1945, the coffee area in the whole country reached 10.000 ha, especially provinces in the North
- After 1975, coffee developed strongly in the Central Highland and initially marked a new era of Vietnam's coffee growing and manufacturing industry.