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Since 2014, we will go to Yunnan every two or three months to see how our coffee is growing in Yunnan plantations.

People who have some knowledge of the actual situation in coffee producing areas, or those who have carefully read the two books "boutique Coffee" and "Bean Hunter", should find that many coffee producing areas are unstable.

By mistake, our plantation (located in a small town on the border of Yunnan and Myanmar) has had a lot of similar experience. An online article entitled "in the fog, Qianjie Coffee chose the most difficult way." there is a very detailed explanation of why we went to this place to grow coffee. Today, let's talk about something else.

Qianjie Coffee opened in 2013, when we wanted to know more about coffee cultivation and raw beans, so growing coffee in Yunnan was an insurmountable hurdle.

According to the general consensus, the three elements of boutique coffee are variety, altitude and handling.

The positioning of Yunnan coffee is to supply coffee raw materials, so they all choose Katim with high yield. Katim is a hybrid. Yunnan currently has more than 2 million mu of coffee, most of which were developed under the stimulation of coffee prices from 2010 to 2011.

What we want to know is the performance of iron pickup and bourbon in Yunnan, so it is unlikely to buy ready-made Yunnan coffee fields, but to grow coffee from scratch through breeding.

A big reason why various treatments of coffee are popular in Yunnan is that they originally planted Katim varieties, which is equivalent to a shortcut to highlight the flavor of post-treatment without changing the variety and altitude.

The place where our plantation is located is a small town outside the country, and when we leave the country, it is Kokang in northern Myanmar. In 2011, the Burmese government officially named Kokang as the Kokang Autonomous region in northern Shan State of Myanmar. When we were breeding in the plantation in 2014, the situation there had begun to get a little tense. By 2015, war began to break out and a large number of refugees began to pour in.

Why is there war all around us?

Let's start with a short paragraph about the background of this area.

During World War II, the founding father of Myanmar, General Aung San, first used the strength of the Japanese to beat the British, and then used the allies to beat the Japanese. A year before Burma's independence, he was assassinated. His good friend Wu Nu was the first prime minister of Burma for 10 years. His younger brother was the younger brother. In 1958, he resigned to hand over power to the military and then became prime minister again. In 1962, he was overthrown in a coup by the junta, and Myanmar entered the era of military control. The most important thing Aung San dealt with before the assassination was to try to reach an agreement with several major armed forces in northern Myanmar in order to achieve the reunification of the Union of Myanmar. He did not achieve this goal, nor did Wu Nu, and the junta took power in Burma in 1962 and confiscated the assets of Chinese businessmen in 1964-1966. As a result, the great powers' support for northern Myanmar went public until the end of the last century.

These northern armies have their own armed forces and their own territories, which are collectively referred to as civilian land weapons (civilian local weapons). As the Burmese army continues to attack and slowly declare obedience to the Burmese central government, there is still a gap between the strength of the local and central armies.

Next to our planting land is Kokang, which used to be the site of Peng Jiasheng, the "king of Kokang". He took advantage of the mountain area to carry out guerrilla warfare and ran away if he could not fight. When our plantation house had not yet been repaired, we had to stay in a hotel on the border. Peng Jiasheng's cottage was also built on the border, about 50 meters apart. When others hit him, he ran up the mountain or toward us. After a stalemate for a year or two, the downstairs side of the Burmese border where we lived was covered with mines, and sometimes bullets flew over. So that the hotel has to put up notices to remind guests. In the most serious cases, the Burmese air force dropped bombs directly on the Chinese side, and houses on the Chinese side had to plant national flags on the roofs to keep the Burmese air force from dropping bombs here all the time.

In spite of this, the scene was also very ugly. Peng Jiasheng's men returned to the Central Committee and Peng Jiasheng hid in Thailand. Before going to Thailand, he also said on many domestic websites that we were Chinese and asked everyone to raise money and so on. Joking, that place is called the Kokang Autonomous region in the northern Shan State of Myanmar, but it is not the Kokang Autonomous region in the northern Shan State of China. The fund-raising matter came to an end later.

After being quiet for several years, our coffee has grown up. In fact, no matter during the period of Peng Jiasheng or when Burma took over, the border people on both sides came and went very casually, that is, a path passed, but it was only 50 kilometers inland that there would be some border checkpoints gradually, making it impossible for the border people to go deep. On the other hand, the opposite is really too messy, there are wars, kidnappings, mines and so on, who would want to go there, but there are really people who will want to go there. Many of the casinos over there are one of the two major sources of local income (not to mention the other). Many local young people, women are Dutch officials and men are casino bodyguards. There is a special person to find a young man on the domestic Internet as a little beauty, buy him a plane ticket, let him travel and find a girlfriend, go to the town and take him abroad by the path, and then go to the casino and lose quickly. After losing, he is locked in an iron cage and asked him to call the country, return the lost money, cut off his ears and so on. Do you think young people in domestic cities can see such a scene? There are almost none. That's why as soon as we got off the plane in Yunnan, we received a text message from the Yunnan Public Security Bureau telling you not to run abroad. In those years, dozens of people were there waiting for news from the opposite side of the police station.

At the beginning of the epidemic, medical care in Myanmar was so backward that hospitals were simply inadequate. Quarantine measures hung a mosquito net for you in the woods, which is why the epidemic in Myanmar is so serious.

At the back, this side completely closed the border, pulled up more than 100 kilometers of barbed wire, and there were several people in a tent every one or two kilometers, so that all the roads were cut off.

In the past few weeks, Mangshi in the north was still out of control, and someone came here for two or three times, which led to the re-control of Mangshi, so the local secretary was removed.

We are also affected by border control, the epidemic has been largely controlled, and very strict blocking measures are being implemented at the border, and limited traffic has been slightly restored this year. It was not until the first two months of the coffee season that we went down to harvest and deal with the coffee beans in this season. The quantity is small, and we can only taste it in a limited amount during this event.