Coffee cultivation is concentrated in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places

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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.

The world status of Chinese coffee depends on Yunnan.

Chen Zhenjia, a doctor from the China Coffee Engineering Research Center, said that by the beginning of 2016, China had planted more than 1.8 million mu of coffee, with a total output of 140000 tons, accounting for 1.5 per cent of the world's total output. China is one of the 21 countries and regions that produce coffee in more than 70 countries and regions with an output of more than 100000 tons.

In China, coffee cultivation is concentrated in Yunnan, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places. In the 1960s, coffee cultivation in China was mainly in Hainan. At that time, the planting area of coffee in Hainan was more than 200,000 mu. Today, more than 50 years later, coffee cultivation in China is mainly in Yunnan, while the planting area in Hainan has dropped to less than 10,000 mu.

"Yunnan has geographical and climatic conditions suitable for coffee growth, mainly in the four major producing areas of Dehong, Baoshan, Pu'er and Lincang, with a total planting area of 1.77 million mu and a total output of 139000 tons, accounting for more than 99 percent of the country's total." Chen Zhenjia said.

In 1984, Nestl é used Pu'er as an important coffee raw material production base; in 2012, Starbucks opened a grower support center in Yunnan Pu'er, and in 2018 it opened its first coffee origin store in Pu'er, followed by Yunnan Zhenxuan coffee beans in stores across the country. The boutique coffee brand Seesaw Coffee sends professionals to Yunnan every October to help local coffee farmers cultivate coffee seedlings and regulate picking and handling. More and more people begin to focus on the rural land of Yunnan. So, during this trip, we talk to a number of senior people in different fields of the industry-not only the staff of Yunnan Coffee Trading Center, but also representatives of Yunnan farmers, as well as baristas and bakers. In these diversified perspectives, we will show you the great changes of Yunnan coffee in recent years.

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