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The development of boutique coffee in Yunnan? The future development of Yunnan coffee?

Published: 2025-12-25 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2025/12/25, Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) in 2003, Pu'er launched the China Coffee Industry Association, which was later renamed Pu'er Coffee Association. In 2014, the establishment of Yunnan International Coffee Trading Center supported the trade of raw coffee beans in China, made a large number of development farmer support plans and infrastructure updates, and implemented quality.

Professional coffee knowledge exchange more coffee bean information please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

In 2003, Pu'er launched the China Coffee Industry Federation, which was later renamed Pu'er Coffee Association. In 2014, Yunnan International Coffee Trading Center was established to support the trade of raw coffee beans in China, doing a lot of work to develop farmers' support programs and infrastructure updates, and to implement quality control and grading systems.

Since the push in the late 1980s, total Arabica production in China has grown exponentially-an average of nearly 20 per cent a year, according to the Yunnan International Coffee Trading Center. At the same time, coffee companies, large and small, are flocking to the area.

With the expansion of Yunnan's large coffee industry, boutique coffee has also developed vigorously in Yunnan-although it still accounts for less than 10% of the total coffee production.

Some roasters flocking to Yunnan are particularly interested in emerging professional markets where they can find new and exciting coffee beans. But some skeptics question Yunnan's potential in the professional field, and indeed, the stability of the quantity and quality of Yunnan coffee beans has been criticized by the market. These problems arise mainly because farmers "have never really learned how to produce high-quality coffee."

In addition, there is also a lack of quality control standards for systematic boutique coffee in Yunnan. Yunnan coffee traders have been working with farmers for years to improve quality control and are committed to producing large quantities of boutique coffee. But there is still a long way to go, especially to promote and strive to implement better quality control parameters, and to provide training to improve quality.