Improving Coffee Crop Nutrition in Vietnam

The main objective of this project is to understand current crop nutrition practices in Robusta Coffee in Vietnam, the world’s second largest coffee-producing country. The findings of the study will be used to develop field trials that support and promote adequate and wide scale use of responsible nutrient management for high yield, profit, and environmental sustainability in the coffee sector of Vietnam. The project is currently in Phase 1 for 2018, followed by a planned implementation of Phase 2.
Specifically, the project will produce the following outputs until the end of April 2018:

1. A report with the review findings (maximum 25 pages)
2. A manuscript (1,500 to 2,000 words) submission for IPNI’s Better Crops Journal
3. A two-page outline for a field trial to improve coffee crop nutrition in Vietnam
4. Repository of images, graphs and tables that can be used for presentations

The following milestones and deadlines are used to produce the outputs:

1. Literature (grey, older, rare) collected from Vietnamese institutions: January 10, 2018
2. Key literature translated from Vietnamese into English: January 25, 2018
3. Field data and focus group discussion results compiled: February 10, 2018
4. First report draft including literature review and field data: February 28, 2018
5. Field work design draft: March 12, 2018
6. Journal manuscript draft: March 31, 2018
7. All final products: April 15, 2018.

The field surveys from in the most important Vietnamese Robusta coffee regions have been completed. The databases with field results are currently being developed. The literature review, as well as writing the first manuscript are ongoing. IPNI has been instrumental in the initial establishment of crop nutrition management practices in Vietnam between 1990 and 2000. This project will build on the achievements and further improve the current management practices.