Yunnan coffee farm, Yunnan coffee bean planting

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The western and southern parts of Yunnan Province are located between 15 °N and the Tropic of Cancer, and most areas are 1000-2000 meters above sea level. The topography is dominated by mountains and slopes, with large ups and downs, fertile soil, sufficient sunshine, rich rainfall and large temperature difference between day and night. These unique natural conditions form the particularity of Yunnan small grain coffee taste-strong but not bitter, fragrant but not strong, slightly fruity. As early as the 1950s, Yunnan small seed coffee was very popular in the international coffee market and was rated as the top grade of coffee.

The history of coffee cultivation in Yunnan can be traced back to 1892. A French missionary brought coffee to Yunnan from abroad and successfully planted it in a valley in Binchuan County, Yunnan Province. The coffee plants of this batch of coffee seeds are still blooming and bearing fruit in Binchuan County.

Yunnan coffee was planted on a large scale in the mid-1950s, with a planting scale of 4000 hectares at one time. By the end of 1997, the planting area of coffee in the province had reached 7800 hectares. At present, the planting area of the province accounts for 70% of the national area, and the output accounts for 83% of the whole country. Yunnan coffee has established the dominant position in China in terms of planting area and coffee bean production.

The suitable planting areas of coffee in Yunnan are distributed in Simao, Banna, Wenshan, Baoshan and Dehong in the south and southwest of Yunnan.

Pu'er, Xishuangbanna, Wenshan, Baoshan, Dehong, Lincang and other places in the south and west of Yunnan are all the distribution areas of small-grain coffee in Yunnan. As of January 1, 2012, according to the comprehensive survey of Yunnan Province, the planting area of coffee in Yunnan has exceeded 800000 mu, and the output of coffee beans in this period is expected to exceed 55000 tons. For the future, local governments in Yunnan have also drawn a blueprint: Dehong is planning to expand the coffee planting area from the current 100000 mu to 200000 mu in the next few years; Lincang plans to expand the existing 20, 000-mu coffee forest by 10 times to 200000 mu in the 12th five-year Plan; and Pu'er also plans to expand the 220000 mu coffee forest to 600000 mu. Other areas suitable for coffee cultivation, such as Baoshan and Xishuangbanna, are also planning to expand the planting scale.

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With the help of the Yunnan provincial government, Yunnan Aiyi Group has joined hands with Starbucks to improve the level of coffee cultivation in Yunnan since 2011. In addition, 33 high-quality coffee varieties such as Rosa and Bourbon have been introduced from the main coffee producing areas in the world to be planted in Aiyi Manor, and the World Coffee Expo Park has been established. After five years of planting and initial processing, except for two varieties which are not resistant to rust and are not suitable for the local climate and soil, the other varieties have performed well, and the cup test performance of three varieties is particularly amazing. In January this year, Aiyi Manor sent samples of these 33 new coffee varieties to the United States, asking the world coffee industry leader, former president of the American Fine Coffee Association (SCAA) and one of the founders of the Coffee quality Research Institute (CQI) Ted Lingle to test the cup. the cup test scores of the first five varieties were 84.25,84.5,84.5,85.5 and 87, respectively. At the beginning of 2016, Jeremy Wakeford, a coffee master with 50 years of international cup testing experience, was specially invited to Aiyi Manor from Europe to evaluate and evaluate the 33 varieties as a whole, as well as the cup test by BBA, a famous French coffee cup tester. The results are highly consistent with Mr. Ted's cup test results. Jeremy Wakeford describes Rose Summer as "as pure as an angel". "the fruit acidity is refreshing, mellow thickness is good, slightly tea, and honey pomelo, apricot, citrus, caramel flavor."

Aiyi Manor is located in Manzhongtian Village, Simao District, Pu'er City, with similar latitudes, altitude, planting conditions and climate to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, and is located in the golden zone of coffee cultivation in the world.

"Coffee is my career all my life. Is the source of passion in my life, is my dream, is my forever girlfriend, permanent lover. " This is a sentence often spoken by Liu Minghui, chairman of Aiyi Group. "plant coffee trees in the rainforest, put cattle in the coffee forest, and put coffee beans in Starbucks cups." This does not seem to represent his ultimate dream. His greatest dream is to let the world know that Yunnan is the place on earth that can produce gourmet coffee and become one of the high-quality coffee producing areas in his lifetime. To realize this dream, Yunnan coffee to the world, depends on many factors, coffee variety is one of them.

However, with regard to the new varieties of coffee grown at Aiyi Manor, he said that growing good coffee must be agreed by coffee drinkers all over the world, and it must be recognized by the whole world. Yunnan coffee is really famous in the world, and there is still a long way to go. He leads the Aichi Group, which has been dedicated to coffee for 30 years, and he said that if he had another 30 years to live, he would continue on the road to coffee.