Vietnamese Coffee Production Weakens in 2012–13

Vietnam's coffee production is estimated in marketing year 2012–13 to be about 25 million 60-kilogram bags of green coffee, about a 4 percent drop from MY 2011–12 due to pre-seasonal rains during the coffee flower blossoming period in main coffee growing areas. The total export estimate in MY 2012–13 is up to 23.8 million bags due to the pace of green bean exports MY-to-date.