In 5 months of 2025, Vietnam’s coffee export reached about 4.78 billion USD. It is a significant increase of 65.3% compared to the same period in 2024, despite a slight production increase of 0.9% to 834,000 tons. This outstanding result has just been announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment.
The main reason for the sharp increase in exports is the average price rising to 5,726 USD per ton, the highest ever.
This price trend reflects the situation of the global market, as supply continues to decline due to the prolonged drought affecting major producing countries like Brazil and Vietnam. Meanwhile, consumer demand in major markets such as Europe, the United States, and Asia has significantly increased.
Arabica coffee and processed coffee are the items that account for a large proportion of the additional turnover, especially thanks to domestic enterprises enhancing deep processing and taking advantage of tariff preferences from FTAs. Among all markets, Germany, Italy, the USA, and Japan are major customers; specifically, Mexico’s imports increased 55 times, reaching over 71 million USD.
Coffee exports reached nearly 5 billion USD.
The coffee industry remains a prominent contributor to Vietnam’s agricultural, forestry, and fishery exports, contributing significantly to the total industry turnover of 28.04 billion USD, a 15.4% increase from the same period last year. Among them, the agricultural products group reached 14.76 billion USD, a strong increase of 27.7%; seafood reached 3.64 billion USD, an increase of 6.5%; livestock reached 199 million USD, an increase of 4.8%; while the forestry products group recorded a decrease of 9.9%, with 6.93 billion USD.
Besides coffee, many other agricultural products also achieved positive growth thanks to high export prices. Notably, pepper increased by 41.5% in value despite a nearly 17% decrease in volume; cashew nuts rose by more than 20%; and rice reached a turnover of 2.65 billion USD, up 38% thanks to expanding market share in key markets, such as the Philippines, Indonesia, and China.
However, some key items recorded a decline. Vegetable and fruit exports decreased by 7.8% and tea by 6%, mainly due to low export prices and low consumption demand in the Chinese market.
In terms of imports, the total value of input items for agricultural production, such as fertilizers, animal feed, and pesticides, reached 21.56 billion USD, a decrease of 5% compared to the same period last year. Thanks to effective control of input costs, the entire agriculture, forestry, and fishery sector achieved a trade surplus of nearly 6.5 billion USD, a significant increase of 64.5%.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the trend of export growth is gradually being restored. Businesses in the industry have proactively restructured their products, intensified deep processing, and effectively taken advantage of the benefits from FTAs, thereby enhancing added value and the position of Vietnamese agricultural products in the global market.