Days after Typhoon Kalmaegi rushed through coffee fields in Vietnam with no significant toll, Robusta (Coffea canefora) prices are in minor retreat.
According to the Tin Túc Nong Nghiep, both farm-gate rates and international futures are recently down by 300 dong ($0.01) a kg.
Robusta futures at the London exchange for January 2026 deliveries contracted by 0.10% session-to-session, to $4,618 a kg.
The London futures rate is at least 3,400 dong ($0.13) per kg more than what farmers in Vietnam are receiving domestically.
Various coffee-growing provinces have experienced coffee price retreats of between 300 and 500 dong ($0.011-0.019) a kg this week.
As of dawn November 12, farmers in the Central Highlands were selling their harvest at a maximum 118,500 dong ($4.50)/kg.
Rates in Dak Lak province near the Cambodia border dipped by 500 dong ($0.019) sale-to-sale, to 18,400 dong ($4.49) a kg.
Lam Dong province, north of Dak Lak, commanded some 117,300 dong ($4.45) a kg on the 12th, down 300 dong ($0.011).
So was Gia Lai province, south of Dak Lak, whose coffee rate contracted by 500 ($0.02) dong, to 118,200 dong ($4.49)/kg.
In Gia Lai, however, producers can still get 25,000 dong ($0.95)/kg for premium fresh coffee.
The current lowest rate of 118,000 dong ($4.48)/kg is also notably higher than the corresponding mid-November 2024’s of 110,800 ($4.20) dong.
High Expectations
Despite the price dip, farmers in the Central Highlands are still heralding this a major season due to robust global demand.
In Gia Lai, growers no longer worry about price swings after a lucrative foregoing season and a currently productive year.
Local farmer Vu Van Chin told a Vietnam news agency that this year’s harvest promises “double the output of previous years.”
This is in reference to the October-February Robusta picking window that precedes the January-April Arabica harvest.
In 2024, the biannual harvest had also begun with low rates only for them to rally by 4.5% on November 14.
This rallying trend could spill over into 2026 due to low trade supplies versus uptick world demand. Conversely, trade war effects reduced the 2024-2025 world exports ending September 2025 by 0.3%, creating a supply gap.
Ranged against insufficient world reserves, the ongoing drop in prices for Robusta in Vietnam could therefore only be temporal. Skim the stats below to find out more about the country’s production profile for this variety.
Vietnam Robusta Statistics
In the undulating highlands of central-Western Vietnam, Robusta is popular as the ‘brown gold.” The country is the number 2 biggest coffee producer worldwide with annual output at 1.8 million tonnes, as of 2021. Over 90% of this capacity is Robusta. All production activities of both Arabica and Robusta give livelihoods to over 2.5 million individuals, mostly farmers.
Robusta production experienced extreme growth at over 2100% annually between 1990 and 2024, per the Global Coffee Report magazine. Commercial cultivation gained momentum in the 1990s after having had a firm start in the 1980s.
Since then, Vietnam has been accounting for above 40% of the world’s Robusta supplies, according to the World Coffee Research. Most of the coffee grows in the central-western highlands, on 640,000 farms. Smallholder farmers produce some 97% of the crop, per a 2018 Enveritas Global Farmer Study.