People line up to play a game enabling them to get free cups of
coffee during the fourth Coffee Festival in Vietnam’s central
highland’s town of Buon Ma Thuot, in the province of Dak Lak
yesterday. Vietnam with its coffee production reaching some 1.6mn
tonnes in 2012, became a world’s leading coffee producer and 80% of
the country’s coffee production come from the central highland of
Tay Nguyen. The festival is held every two years in Buon Ma Thuot,
regarded as the country’s capital of coffee.
Coffee Queen crowned at Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in
Vietnam
Photo taken on March 10, 2013
shows the Coffee Queen Contest on the occasion of Buon Ma Thuot
Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City in Vietnam. The Coffee Queen
Contest was held on Sunday as a part of the fourth biennial Buon Ma
Thuot Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City in Vietnam's central
Dac Lac province.
Nguyen Lam Diem Trang from
Vietnam's southern Vinh Long province smiles at the Coffee Queen
Contest on the occasion of Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in Buon Ma
Thuot City in Vietnam, March 10, 2013. The Coffee Queen Contest was
held on Sunday as a part of the fourth biennial Buon Ma Thuot
Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City in Vietnam's central Dac Lac
province.
A girl takes part in the Coffee
Queen Contest on the occasion of Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in
Buon Ma Thuot City in Vietnam.
The newly-crowned "Coffee
Queen" Nguyen Lam Diem Trang(R) from Vietnam's southern Vinh Long
province smiles during the Coffee Queen Contest on the occasion of
Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival in Buon Ma Thuot City in
Vietnam.
The 4 th Buon Ma ThuotCoffee
Festival ended
on March 12 th in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dac Lac
province.
The closing cremony, themed ” ighlands ‘s aroma”, was fascinated by
performances of 12 artistic troupes in the province and other
localities, highlighting coffee production and popularising the
brand of Buon Ma Thuot coffee to the world.
Also at the
ceremony, the People’s Committee of Dak Lak province
honoured 20 coffee
products for their quality and 20 farmers and
scientists.
The four-day festival, under the theme “Buon Ma Thuot coffee,
integration and development”, went through various activities
including exhibitions
and fairs, street festivals, and seminars.
Held every two years, the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee
Festival sticks to the
goal of promoting the Vietnamese coffee
industry and its products, especially popularising the
brand of Buon Ma Thuot coffee in particular and that of Vietnam to
the world.