date:Aug 19, 2014
Coffee fruit in Vietnam are fully grown and of similar size to recent years after rains boosted crop development, according to producers in the biggest supplier of robusta beans used by Nestle SA.
Farmers have applied two rounds of fertiliser and are preparing for a final round in two to three weeks before harvesting starts in October, they said. Production may drop 3 per cent to 1.65 million metric tons in 2014-2015 from a record a year earlier, according to a Bloomberg survey this month.
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