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A brief introduction to the characteristics of Qianjie Coffee-Yunnan Coffee Katim

Yunnan small grain coffee

Yunnan small-grain coffee, Rubiaceae, coffee genus, the planting area is mainly distributed in Lincang, Baoshan, Simao, Xishuangbanna, Dehong and so on. Yunnan coffee is a variant of Arabian original species, which is generally called Yunnan small grain coffee after long-term cultivation and domestication. The local people also call round beans "single-celled beans". Small grains of coffee are native to Ethiopia or the Arabian Peninsula.

Variety

Typica: the oldest native variety in Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan. All Arabikas are derived from Tibika. The flavor is elegant, but the physique is weak, the disease resistance is poor, the fruit yield is less. Excellent manor beans such as the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Manning of Sumatra and Kona of Hawaii all belong to Tibika. Tiebika top leaf is red copper, called red top coffee, Tibika belongs to Arabica.

Catimor: in 1959, the Portuguese mixed Brazilian Kaddura and Timo to produce a disease-resistant Katim / Katimo, which is now an important variety of commercial beans. East Timor was colonized by Portugal for 400 years, and the Portuguese have long been in contact with East Timorese coffee trees. In 1959, the Portuguese moved the Brazilian bourbon mutant Kadura to East Timor and interbred with Tim, who was of Robusta origin, and succeeded in breeding Kadim with strong disease resistance and super production capacity.

During the period from 1977 ○ to 1999 ○, leaf rust affected coffee producing countries around the world. With the assistance of international organizations, various producing countries vigorously promoted Kadim to fight leaf rust and increase production capacity. However, although Katim inherited the advantages of Robusta's strong disease resistance, but also inherited the gene of poor flavor, in addition, although the early Katim had a large production capacity, it needed shade trees to serve, otherwise it was easy to wither.

Now it seems that most of the varieties planted in Yunnan are Katim, which is a hybrid of Kaddura and Robusta, a branch of the bourbon line in the Arabica species. The reason for planting this variety is that Katim has the Robusta gene, so it is easier to resist disease than a single old variety, and the yield is better, and the yield is lower than that of the delicate old variety.

Yunnan Katim flavor is more balanced, the tone is nutty, brown sugar flavor.

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