Tech-savvy Vietnamese coffee farmers brew global takeover

“From high-tech Israeli irrigation systems to text message updates of global prices for the commodity, coffee farming in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has come a long way since the French first introduced the bean over a century ago.  By texting ‘CA’ to the number 8288 from any Vietnamese mobile phone, farmers almost instantly receive a message with the London prices of Robusta coffee beans and the New York price of Arabica beans.  In 20 years, Vietnam went from contributing less than 0.1 per cent of world production in 1980 to some 13 per cent in 2000 – staggering growth that has been partially blamed for the collapse of global coffee prices in the 1990s.  There is no tax on coffee exports.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/tech-savvy-vietnamese-coffee-farmers-brew-global-takeover/

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