Vietnam
Structural Reality
What Shapes Vietnam Coffee
Vietnam’s structural reality
Nationally dominated by Robusta (commodity, input-intensive, yield-maximizing).
Specialty lives almost entirely in Arabica highlands.
Farm sizes are small-to-medium, but processing and export are often centralized and vertically integrated.
Region matters because it predicts Arabica viability, processing style, and who controls the chain.
Growing Regions
9 Regions
Lâm Đồng (Đà Lạt / Cầu Đất)
Vietnam’s specialty core
Sơn La (northwest highlands)
emerging, climate-challenged
Quảng Trị / Quảng Nam (central highlands pockets)
marginal specialty
Điện Biên / Lai Châu (far north)
tiny volumes, pilot-only