Yunnan Katim is a Katim coffee introduced by the French, which looks like a rough man.

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Front Street-brief introduction of Katim Coffee beans

Small-grain coffee "Catimor" is unique to Baoshan area of Yunnan Province. As early as 1958, Baoshan small Coffee won the first class at the International Taste Fair in London, England, and was even praised as "the top coffee in the country" by the mainland. Katim coffee is a subspecies of Arabica. "No bitterness and astringency are the basic skills of fine coffee, but Katim is better than other boutique coffee!" Special "throat rhyme", with hints of walnut wood, sour fruit and a final sweet layer. "this is the focus of Katim's taste.

Yunnan is the main coffee bean producing area in China. Yunnan is located in the subtropical mountain climate zone south of the Tropic of Cancer, with unique plateau red soil, fertile and loose soil and mild climate, which is especially suitable for growing small-grain coffee. Today Qianjie will learn about the characteristics and flavor of Yunnan Katim beans with you.

In 1902, a French missionary named Tian Deneng brought coffee from Vietnam to grow coffee in a mountain village called Zhu Kula in Binchuan County, Dali, Yunnan Province. Today, the offspring of that batch of coffee are still alive, and the ancient coffee forest tells the story of a hundred years in the morning dew and sunset.

Catimor, also known as Katim, was bred by the Portuguese in 1959. It has 3/4 Arabica lineage and 1/4 Robusta pedigree. Its most important feature is its extremely strong and strong resistance to leaf rust. This is an ideal commercial variety for coffee producers in terms of yield, maturity, pest resistance and flavor. Katim's beans are round and thick, Tibica is thin and long, and Katim's central line is messy.

It's just that once Katim is planted at high altitudes, its inherent "inferiority" will undoubtedly be exposed, while the advantages of Arabica coffee, which are older and closer to the original species, such as Tibica and Bourbon, have been fully demonstrated. At present, the planting area of each series of Katim in Yunnan is very large, and coffee farmers are optimistic about its three advantages of short trees, high yield and disease resistance (resistance to longicorn beetles and leaf rust).

It is a little regrettable that at present, Katim in Yunnan has not yet won a prize in any authoritative competition, which is not high-quality, and there is a long way to go to improve and explore. Catimor fruit ripens quickly and has high yield, which requires adequate fertilizer supply and shading. In addition, the high yield of catimor corresponds to a relatively shorter commercial life, with an average of only ten years. When growing at low altitude, the cup performance of catimor has no obvious advantages and disadvantages compared with other commercial varieties. When planted above 1200 meters above sea level, the flavor of catimor cup is obviously inferior to that of bourbon, caturra and catuai.

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