Mr. Nguyen Van Nin's family in Kien Thanh commune, Dak R'lap district has been growing 4 hectares of coffee since 2010. After many years of cultivation, Mr. Nin has replanted by grafting and improving coffee trees.
Mr. Nin said that the coffee garden after replanting his family is currently yielding 3-5 tons/ha, 1-2 tons/ha higher than the old variety. This is a result beyond the family's expectations.
In addition to replanting with new coffee varieties, Mr. Nin also changed farming methods to improve product quality. Mr. Nin does not use herbicides, only uses safe pesticides and harvests ripe coffee with a rate of over 70%.
Every year, Mr. Nin's family harvests about 4 tons of high-quality coffee, selling it at a price 20,000 VND/kg higher than the market price thanks to connecting with purchasing units.
Mr. Nin shared: "I create a grass carpet to cover the land, and at the same time plant forest trees and fruit trees to shade and protect the coffee from the wind. Coffee is the main source of income for my family. The biggest difficulty is selectively picking ripe coffee, due to high labor costs and difficulty in hiring workers at certain times."
Currently, Dak Nong has more than 142,000 hectares of coffee and this is the source of income for about 70,000 households. The province's coffee output reaches about 400,000 tons per year, contributing more than 300,000 billion VND to the value of the agricultural sector.
Previously, coffee in Dak Nong was often grown spontaneously, using seedlings of unknown origin, causing great impact on producers.
Coffee production is not yet sustainable and has not fully exploited the potential of land and climate to improve productivity and economic efficiency.
According to a review by the Department of Agriculture of Dak Nong province, about 50% of the coffee area is using seedlings, causing low uniformity in the garden and low productivity and product quality.
Faced with this situation, Dak Nong province has implemented a plan to replant and graft coffee in the 2021-2025 period. The province focuses on promoting and mobilizing farmers to replant coffee.
To date, the province has replanted 29,980 hectares, of which replanting reached about 23,037 hectares and grafting and renovation reached 4,942 hectares. The economic efficiency of replanted and grafted coffee gardens is about 0.5-1.5 tons/ha higher than mass production.
The functional sector has increased the organization of training courses and seminars to guide the process of coffee replanting and grafting; and developed a process suitable to the actual conditions in each district.
Currently, people's proactive coffee replanting is contributing to creating coffee gardens with high economic efficiency and good product quality.
Many farmers have applied a coffee production model that adapts to climate change, intercropping high-value crops such as fruit trees, pepper, macadamia... bringing outstanding economic efficiency.
According to the leader of the Dak Nong Province Department of Agricultural Development, to improve coffee productivity and quality, in addition to applying technical farming measures, people need to boldly replace old, low-yielding, and disease-infested coffee areas with good quality varieties.
Along with that, the Agriculture sector encourages farmers to use high-yielding Robusta coffee varieties with good resistance to rust such as TR4, TR9, TR11, TRS1...
Dak Nong has established a high-tech coffee production area in Thuan An commune, Dak Mil district, with a scale of 335 hectares. The province has nearly 23,500 hectares of coffee production with 4C, RA, VietGAP, GlobalGAP, organic certifications... with an output of over 82,000 tons/year. About 225 hectares of coffee in the province are produced according to a specialty, high-quality process, with an output of 251 tons/year.
Source: https://baodaknong.vn/dak-nong-tai-canh-gan-30-000ha-ca-phe-de-nang-hieu-qua-kinh-te-230605.html
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