Lam Dong
Vietnam's high-tech agriculture capital—69,600 ha smart farms, 327K ha coffee, Da Lat 6M+ visitors/year, UNESCO Creative City, 773% international tourist surge.
Lam Dong operates Vietnam's high-tech agricultural capital from Da Lat's cool highlands. Over 69,600 hectares (21.2% of cultivated area) use high-tech methods—automatic sensors, water-saving irrigation, mechanized planting that boosts productivity 5–7x over manual methods. The three anchor crops: coffee (327,629 hectares), durian (42,532 hectares), and dragon fruit (25,979 hectares) define the province's export identity.
Da Lat—the "miraculous essence from fertile land"—hosts 6,208 hectares of smart farming, welcomes 6+ million visitors annually, and earned UNESCO Creative Cities Network membership for music. The 2024 Da Lat Flower Festival showcased the city's position as ASEAN Clean Tourist City. 700+ products carry intellectual property protection; 914 meet OCOP standards. International visitors surged 773% year-on-year in 2024.
At 300–1,500 meters elevation with 18–25°C temperatures, Lam Dong produces 3.5 million tonnes of vegetables annually from 85,300+ hectares. Coffee replanting (33,094 hectares, 2021-2025) yields 3.5 tons/hectare. Services and tourism anchor the 2025-2030 development strategy. By 2026, Lam Dong tests whether highland specialty agriculture can scale digitally while preserving the cool-weather advantage no other Vietnamese province can replicate.