How coffee helped a Vietnamese war veteran raise his family

Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer – exporting an estimated US$3.5 billion of the commodity in 2018. They are second only to Brazilians, who exported US$5.2 billion worth of coffee in the same year.However, in 1986, the republic managed to grow only 300,000 60kg bags of coffee beans. In 2018, volumes had skyrocketed to over 30 million bags: a hundredfold increase.In comparison, Indonesia’s production only rose from 5.9 million bags in 1986 to just 10.2 million bags in 2018…