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What is a microbatch?

Is to further select the beans with the best performance from a batch of beans that have already performed well.

In the simplest terms, "Microlots" is to select the best beans from a batch of beans that have already performed well.

You can think of it as a differentiation strategy, picking out the better parts before entering the market, so that the profit of selling can be higher. On the one hand, it satisfies the increasingly picky taste buds of the single-product coffee industry, and on the other hand, it also helps farmers produce coffee beans to enter the boutique coffee market, and at the same time establish their own quality image.

Just imagine, coffee of uneven quality can only be sold at a lower price. Is it a pity not to pick out the ones of higher quality?.

The method of "picking out" micro-batches

The method of "picking out" micro-batches

There are many ways to "pick out" micro-batches, for example, because the weather is better today, especially to separate today's coffee beans from others, or because a farmer is better at fertilizing, so separate his production from that of others, and so on. It can also be a special requirement today to take only ripe fruit, and then use double labor to pick out impurities and defective products; it can even be a high-risk attempt, such as deciding whether to change to other varieties with better flavor.

There is no definite method for micro-batch, but only through constant attempt and the cooperation of everyone can we find the really good quality. In an ideal state, such persistence and pursuit can make the technological improvement continue, and even drive the whole to improve together.

In fact, whether micro-batch can become a long-term and sustainable production mode that really benefits producers has always been the focus of many people's attention. In order to maintain high quality, it takes more effort and effort on a regular basis. Frankly speaking, not all producers in every region can afford the manpower and material costs they need. Considering from this direction, microbatching is not a method that can be applied in every producing area.

When everyone wants to grow good coffee and want to be selected into micro-batches, the gap between technology and information makes many farmers do not know how to grow good coffee, or how to grow good coffee every year. Therefore, how to make micro-batch is not only a "accidental luck", but also how to make good technology take root locally and spread out in the production area is a topic that many people are working hard at present.

On other levels, the reason why many co-operatives sell coffee beans mixed with different members is to maintain fairness in external bargaining and to avoid quarrels between some selling well and others selling poorly. After all, centripetal force is a very important issue for production organizations. In addition, the production of micro-batches is usually not too large, so although the price is better, it is more difficult to become the main source of profits.