Where is the best coffee in China? Introduction to the highlights of the third Baoshan Coffee Culture Festival

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Lujiangba, Longyang District, Baoshan City, on November 24, where the hustle and bustle is like a festival, what is held in this remote mountain area is a coffee professional competition, picking coffee beans, hand-brewing coffee, coffee cup testing, these competition forms, are the contents of the World Series. What is even more unexpected is that most of the participants are local farmers and international coffee bigwigs. Why is there such a coffee professional competition in this remote mountain?

"there are the best varieties of coffee in China-- small-grain coffee, and there is a unique climate and soil environment suitable for coffee growing. a good cup of coffee is not only grown, but also picked. Growing on a tree is good coffee, but if it is not picked well, it cannot be counted as good coffee. A rotten bean, moldy bean and raw bean will affect the quality of coffee. " Wang Dayong, a coffee magnate and referee from Shenzhen, said at the scene of the picking competition of the third Coffee Culture Festival.

On the morning of the 24th, Dong Zuliang, a senior adviser to the China Coffee Engineering Research Center, said in an interview during the picking competition: "in order to let the Chinese people drink the best coffee in China, Lujiangba has grown the best coffee beans in China, but so far, because there is no systematic standard system of picking, peeling and drying, some high-end coffee processing enterprises cannot buy good coffee beans, and farmers do not have a standard. Over the years, only unified goods, leading to low prices of coffee beans, restricting the development of the coffee industry. "

Dong Zuliang also introduced that coffee beans are just a sweet fruit before picking. Through this competition, let people know what kind of coffee beans are good.

The coffee picking competition was attended by 29 teams from various villages, Xincheng Farm and Lujiang Farm. The other two supernumerary teams, evergreen international team and Shenzhen women's team, participated as experience teams.

Before the picking competition, Yang Yingqun from Daojie told reporters that the government organized the third Coffee Culture Festival and formed its own team to participate in the coffee picking competition. He wanted to see the culture of the coffee festival while winning the prize.

After the competition, Liu Zhenmei and Yang Xuefen from Shitouzhai, Lujiang, said: "although this competition did not win a prize, the reason is that the coffee beans picked are raw and ripe, only quantity, not quality." We have been growing coffee for more than 20 years, and we collect coffee beans every year, no matter whether they are red or ripe or not. Today, after listening to the explanations of experts and referees, we learned that our coffee beans were not grown well, but were not picked well. We knew earlier that growing coffee would have made a fortune. "

Duan Huifu, a villager in Xinzhai, watched the barista's performance of hand-brewing coffee and marveled at how many patterns there were in making coffee, saying that he wanted to study hard and grow two mu of coffee. In the future, he should not only grow good coffee, but also open a coffee bar to pull coffee flowers from minority culture to customers, and be a disseminator of coffee culture.

Dong Zuliang told the reporter after the international expert forum on "drinking Chinese Coffee": "the variety and quality of coffee in Lujiangba are not bad, but the only difference lies in the planting and processing technology and modern business model. This requires local governments to open up ideas, think more ways, introduce advanced ideas and technical support, guide farmers to change their traditional concepts, improve the mode of production, and make every effort to create high-quality products. Only when various measures are in place can farmers live a better life on coffee. "

Background data: coffee has been planted in Lujiangba for more than 60 years and has rich cultivation experience. Most of the planting areas are in the area of 800 meters above sea level, and a few are planted in areas above 1300 meters above sea level. In 1952, Yunnan Tropical Economic crops Research Institute introduced small-grain coffee from Luxi Shaofang to Lujiangba and successfully planted it. In 1956, Lujiang state-run farm introduced Arabica series varieties in Lujiang dam small area trial and achieved success. Large-scale cultivation began in 1957. In 1963, the area of coffee in Yunnan Province reached more than 50,000 mu, of which more than 80% were concentrated in Lujiang Dam. Coffee suffered devastating destruction during the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, four departments and one agency of the CPC Central Committee held a national coffee work meeting in Baoshan, and the coffee industry has been reborn ever since. Baoshan small grain coffee was rated as first-class in the London market in the late 1950s and was called "Lujiang No. 1". It was recognized as the "top coffee in the country" at the National Coffee Conference in 1980. In October 1992, Baoshan small Coffee won the Silver Award at the China Agricultural Expo. In 1993, he won the Eureka Gold Award at the World Coffee Competition in Brussels, Belgium. In December 2010, after the examination and approval of the AQSIQ, it was decided to implement the national geographical indication product protection for "Baoshan small Coffee". After tasting small grains of coffee grown in Gaoligong Mountain in Yunnan Province during a night visit to Chengdu's wide and narrow lanes in April 2016, Premier Li Keqiang spoke highly of "Baoshan small grains of coffee" and especially urged Chinese coffee to go abroad. At present, the varieties planted are mainly Katim varieties, as well as a small amount of Tibika, Bobang, Kaddura and so on.

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