Vietnam's Coffee Industry

Ripening coffee cherries at a coffee farm in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Farmer Ma Chuong shows the drip irrigation system (D. Schearf/VOA)

Green coffee cherries. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Coffee beans being sorted and cleaned at the factory in Buon Ma Thuot. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Beans being sorted and cleaned at the factory. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Coffee beans being sorted at the factory. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Vietnam's drip style coffee uses a steel filter and press. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Vietnam mainly produces Robusta beans (D. Schearf/VOA)

A Vietnamese-style coffee demonstration. (D. Schearf/VOA)

Dang Le Nguyen, chairman of Trung Nguyen Coffee Company, wants to make Vietnam a "coffee holy land." (D. Schearf/VOA)

A waiter serves Vietnamese-style coffee in Ho Chi Minh City. (D. Schearf/VOA)