Coffee Tour of China (II) Yunnan

Since Nestl é, Kraft, Maxwell and other big factories have set up production bases, even Starbucks plans to set up production bases here. In addition, China's Hougu Coffee has set up the country's two largest instant coffee production lines in Dehong, Yunnan, with an annual output of 13,000 tons. Yunnan Coffee Trade Association has offered a place to buy for the first time this year, which is the first time in China's history! The price of Yunnan coffee beans has also soared since this year!

Beautiful Yunnan

Starbucks buys coffee beans in dozens of countries around the world, mostly from Central and South America, and only a few from Asia. Starbucks is an international company that selects and sells materials through the whole process, but it lacks a planting base. Since the beginning of this year, Starbucks has purchased coffee beans in Yunnan and even intends to choose the world's first coffee growing base in Yunnan. People in the industry believe that the arrival of Starbucks will give a strong impetus to the development of coffee in Yunnan.

Coffee trees are planted in Arabica at Baoshan Base in Yunnan Province.

A few days ago, Dub Hay, senior vice president of Starbucks Global Coffee Purchasing, and Wang Jinlong, chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company Greater China, visited Baoshan and said publicly many times that they planned to list Baoshan as the company's first coffee planting base and set up a worldwide coffee research base in Baoshan.

Arabica from Baoshan Base in Yunnan Province grows mature fresh coffee fruits.

As a matter of fact, some coffee experts have pointed out that the best coffee in the world comes from latitude 15 °north to the Tropic of Cancer. The best coffee producing areas are not Colombia, Brazil and Indonesia, but northern Hainan and southern Yunnan in China. Most areas of Yunnan are 1000-2000 meters above sea level, and 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 formed the taste of Yunnan small seed (Arabica) coffee. At the beginning, it was just that China's planting technology and raw bean processing were not yet in place. In recent years, with large foreign factories to set up production bases, capital investment has been continuously invested. Yunnan is no longer the Wu Xia Ameng of the past!

Guanyinshan Coffee demonstration Base, Huyu Township, Luxi City, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan

The history of coffee cultivation in Yunnan can be traced back to 1892, when coffee was introduced into Binchuan by French missionaries and extended to the villages in Dehong Prefecture in the 1920s and 1930s. In the mid-1950s, Yunnan began to develop coffee production. Because of the suitable environment, various reclamation farms have been planted on a large scale since 1957. Since the 1980s, the United Nations has cooperated to support the cultivation of coffee in Yunnan. At the same time, it provides financial and technical assistance in variety improvement, cultivation and initial processing, so that the raw material quality of Yunnan coffee has been further improved. After inspecting Yunnan coffee planting and primary processing base, international coffee organization tasting experts appraised Yunnan coffee as Arabica (small seed) coffee processed by Colombian wet method, which is a high-quality coffee planting base in the world.

The oldest coffee forest in China is still well preserved in Zhu Kula Village, Pingchuan Town, Binchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province.

Pingchuan Zhen Zhu Ku La Cun, Binchuan County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province, surrounded by Ancient Coffee Forest

From 1995 to the end of the 20th century, Yunnan Province carried out industrial comprehensive development of 18 kinds of biological resources with advantages in the province. The provincial government called this work "18 Biological Resources Development Project", referred to as "18 Project". Yunnan coffee industry has been included in the "18 projects" project. In June 1995, Yunnan Coffee Industry Co., Ltd. was established, which is an economic entity that makes full use of the resource advantages of Yunnan coffee, gives full play to Yunnan's rich planting and management experience, and fully undertakes the planning and implementation of Yunnan coffee industrialization project. At present, the planting area of coffee in Yunnan has reached 420000 mu, and the output is expected to reach 40, 000 tons this year, of which coffee exports account for 95% of the country's total. In the 12th five-year Plan of the coffee industry in Yunnan Province, the coffee planting area in Yunnan will exceed 1 million mu in the next few years.

Under the situation of sharp decline in foreign coffee bean production this year, coffee bean production in Yunnan Province is still on the rise this year. A few days ago, Yunnan Dehong, Pu'er and other places entered the fresh fruit ripening period of coffee. At this time, Yunnan coffee industry, which has been silent for nearly 20 years, decided to quote prices from last month. This means that the Yunnan coffee industry, which has not made a unified quotation on the acquisition of coffee beans for many years, has begun to have a say in the control of coffee raw materials in Yunnan. The quotation set off a "war" of raw materials, which also symbolizes that the competition for raw materials of coffee beans in the international market has also become white-hot.

The blogger has a batch of Yunnan Boben from Baoshan base. "first of all, it is a feeling of being shocked by happiness. It takes three seconds to feel a rich and balanced taste, and a pleasant sour taste emerges from the bottom of the tongue." -- extremely rich connotations. " Taste is really as good as Colombia and other foreign well-known beans, all in all, this batch of Yunnan bourbon let us see a bright prospect in the field of coffee cultivation in our country, and hope to drink more and more Made in China beans in the near future. Suitable altitude (the highest 1800 meters, the lowest also has more than 600m), latitude, climate, soil and other conditions have created its high quality. Chinese people should be proud to drink Chinese coffee, not only because of national feelings, but also because of its high quality.

We Yunnan adzuki beans in China have finally come to an end!