On the morning of February 8, right after the Lunar New Year festivities, coffee growers and businesses across Đắk Lắk Province simultaneously began the first round of coffee irrigation. The goal is to follow proper technical procedures to ensure high yields and strong production in the coming harvest.
This year, with green coffee prices rising sharply, farmers have more resources to intensify their coffee cultivation. Before the Lunar New Year, both households and coffee enterprises invested in thousands of new water pumps, piping systems, and sprinkler irrigation setups to meet the demands of intensive farming.
Farmers have also inspected, repaired, and dredged more than 640 irrigation works and 2,800 dug and drilled wells to secure sufficient water for coffee watering.
On the very first day of irrigation, in key coffee-growing areas such as Cư M’Gar, Krông Pắk, Ea H’Leo, and Cư Kuin, many farmers even built temporary shelters near reservoirs, dams, and wells so they could install pumps and water lines and work around the clock to irrigate their coffee trees.
Thắng Lợi Coffee Company, one of the province’s leading coffee producers and exporters, upgraded the Ea Nhái reservoir and has been pumping water continuously into its concrete canal network so that its members can draw water for irrigation.
Learning from previous seasons, this year coffee farmers and enterprises in Đắk Lắk have been applying the irrigation techniques recommended by the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Science—a practice that not only improves economic efficiency but also conserves water resources.
Currently, Đắk Lắk Province has over 182,400 hectares of coffee, of which more than 177,000 hectares are mature, productive coffee plantations, with the remainder in the establishment phase.