Arabica Coffee Bean and Katim Coffee Bean in Yunnan

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Pu'er City in southwestern Yunnan is one of the birthplaces of coffee in China. Compared with other parts of China, Pu'er has a long history of coffee cultivation. In the early 1980s, Nestle, the Swiss food and beverage group, began sending coffee experts to Pu'er to teach local farmers how to plant coffee trees carefully and then collect and process their fruits. It can be said that the modern history of coffee in Yunnan began here. As a hybrid of Timor and Kartula, Katimore has the characteristics of high yield and resistance to diseases and insect pests, and has dominated coffee grown in Yunnan since then. It is also popular with domestic consumers, although its taste is hardly considered perfect. In fact, Catimor's business influence seems never to have been affected by this. But in the long run, this is likely to hinder the improvement of the quality of Yunnan coffee and damage the international reputation of Yunnan coffee.

"most of our older farmers have never tasted their own coffee and know next to nothing about modern processing. The methods they use are decades old. " Said Hua Runmei, the youngest coffee grower in Pu'er. "I hope to improve the quality of Pu'er coffee and bring more of what I call 'good coffee' to the market."

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