There are several varieties of coffee beans in Yunnan Province in China. What are the varieties of coffee beans? the coffee industry is the ancestor.

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Qianjie-introduction to Yunnan Coffee

Yunnan, as the largest coffee producing area in China, Starbucks, Nestl é and other large coffee companies have smelled its great potential. I believe that people who like to drink coffee have more or less heard of Yunnan coffee. This time I will tell you about the types, history, producing areas and stories of Yunnan coffee.

Yunnan coffee varieties

The coffee varieties in Yunnan mainly take Typica and Bourbon, two classic high-quality coffee varieties, as the main cultivated varieties. In 1991, Katim Catimor series varieties (stronger anti-virus ability and higher yield) were introduced from Kenya, which is a variety of Arabica species (also called small grain species). Because the morphology and habits of the two varieties are similar, the two varieties are mostly mixed.

Small seed coffee plant name Arabica species, is a kind of coffee, a total of more than 100 varieties. Among them, tin pickup and bourbon are recognized as the best Arabica species in the world, and what the Baoshan people usually call "old varieties" are actually iron pickups and bourbon.

The birth History of Coffee in Yunnan

The first stage: in the 1880s, the Qing government was forced to sign a treaty with France to end the Sino-French war and opened Mengzi (Mengzi County, Honghe Prefecture) as a trade port. In 1889, Mengzi customs switch opened the prelude to the exchange between the southwest border and the outside world, and foreign businessmen gathered and foreign firms came one after another.

The second stage: 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.

The third stage: in 1952, experts from Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences distributed 80kg coffee seeds to farmers in Lujiangba, Baoshan, and then guided planting on a large scale a few years later, which led to the coffee trees swaying along the Yunnan-Burma Road. Coffee cultivation in Yunnan has developed rapidly due to the huge demand for supply from the Soviet Union.

The fourth stage: in 1988, Nestl é set up a joint venture in China and began to support the development of the local coffee industry in Yunnan by starting a coffee planting project. Yunnan coffee rose again.

Since 1992, Nestl é has established the Coffee Agriculture Department to guide and study the improvement and cultivation of coffee in Yunnan, and to buy coffee at the price of the spot market in the United States. Up to now, not only coffee giants such as Nestl é, Maxwell, Kraft and Starbucks are engaged in coffee business in Yunnan, local coffee enterprises are also gradually growing.

Knowledge: the west and south of Yunnan Province are located between 15 °N and the Tropic of Cancer, and most areas are 1000-2000 meters above sea level. The topography is dominated by mountains and slopes, with large undulation, fertile soil, sufficient sunshine, rich rainfall and large temperature difference between day and night.

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