Vietnam currently has more than 500,000 hectares of coffee, producing about 850,000 tons annually. However, most of these plantations are managed by smallholder farmers, and about 17% of the area—plants more than 20 years old—now needs to be renovated and restored.
According to the Vietnam National Coffee Corporation, the industry will invest roughly 2,500 billion VND to rehabilitate and upgrade these aging coffee plantations in order to boost productivity.
Rejuvenation methods include cutting back old trunks and nurturing basal shoots to graft with carefully selected clonal varieties, or completely clearing the old trees, planting other crops for a few seasons, and then re-establishing new coffee plants.