Previous Lao Coffee Development Policy
In present day Lao, local farmers use artisanal practices inherited from many generations
to produce the cash crop coffee. As a result of deliberations at a general government meeting
held in April 2013, it was agreed to accord coffee priority as a national agricultural cash crop. The
national meeting determined that “agriculture is of primary importance and still plays a major role
in national economy. To reorient from natural and traditional subsistence agricultural practice to
cash crop production is needed to transition period to socialism in our country.”