Authorities in Vietnam’s Gia Lai province, one of the country’s most important robusta coffee-growing regions, have approved the establishment of a dedicated coffee research institute with a $12.4 million budget. The project will integrate artificial intelligence tools into agronomic research, from optimizing plantation yields to early forecasting of diseases and climate conditions affecting harvests.
Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer, with robusta remaining the backbone of its exports. The investment comes as Asian producers increasingly seek technological solutions to cope with climate change and growing volatility in international coffee prices.
The initiative joins a broader wave of digitalization in global coffee farming, where artificial intelligence is increasingly used for satellite plantation monitoring and predictive harvest models — tools meant to reduce risk for smallholder farmers.
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Source: Daily Coffee News