Published:  00:00 Sunday - October 07, 2007

Coffee culture week will be held in the Unification Park in Hanoi from November 29 to December 2 and the Tao Dan Cultural Park in Ho Chi Minh City from December 13-16 with a wide range of activities, aiming to promote Vietnamese coffee.

As the world’s leading robusta coffee producer and exporter, Vietnam exports around 900,000 tonnes of coffee every year for US$1.5 billion. Coffee has become one of top ten products with an export value of more than US$1 billion. The Central Highland Dak Lak province accounts for 50 percent of the country’s total coffee exports.