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Yunnan coffee bean planting area, Yunnan coffee bean introduction

Published: 2024-11-08 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/11/08, Following Cafe (official Wechat account vdailycom) found that the western and southern parts of Yunnan Province are located between 15 N and the Tropic of Cancer. Most areas are between 1000 m and 2000 m above sea level. The topography is mainly mountainous and sloping, with large undulation, fertile soil, sufficient sunshine, abundant rainfall and great temperature difference between day and night. These unique natural conditions have formed.

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The western and southern parts of Yunnan Province are located between 15 °N and the Tropic of Cancer, most of which are 1000 m ~ 2000 m above sea level. The topography is mainly mountainous and sloping, 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 fruiting in Binchuan County.

Yunnan coffee was planted on a large scale in the mid-1950s. Yunnan coffee has established its 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, Xishuangbanna, Wenshan, Baoshan and Dehong in the south and southwest of Yunnan.

[scientific name]

The small seed is Coffea arabica L., the medium grain is Coffea canephora, and the large grain is Coffea liberica.

Family and genus: coffee genus of Rubiaceae

[alias]

Small seed species are also called Arabian species, medium seed species are also called Ganfla species, and large seed species are also called Liberian species.

There are two main kinds of common: Arabica and Robusta.

Coffee is rich in protein, fat, sucrose, starch, caffeine and other substances. after being made into a beverage, coffee is rich in aroma, delicious taste and rich nutrition, so it has become the world's three largest beverages composed of tea and cocoa, and ranks first in the list. Yunnan coffee is a variant of Arabian original species, which has been cultivated for more than one hundred years after long-term cultivation.

Morphological features: small trees or large shrubs, plant height 5-8 meters. Base usually much branched, old branches gray-white. Nodes inflated, young branches glabrous. Leaves thinly leathery-ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, apex long acuminate, base cuneate or slightly obtuse, entire or shallowly wavy, both surfaces glabrous. Cymes several clustered in leaf axils, Corolla white, fragrant. When ripe, berries are broadly oval, red, 1.2 × 1.6 cm long, and seeds 0.8-1.0 cm long. The florescence is from March to April.

Origin and distribution: native to Ethiopia or Arabian Peninsula, cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

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