Establishment of Coffee quality Inspection system in Yunnan

On March 26, in Yunnan Province, China's largest coffee-producing area, local coffee enterprises are trying to establish a quality traceability system for coffee bases, trying to find out the planting area, altitude, grower, primary processing plant, etc. of each cup of coffee by scanning bar codes. It is understood that this is also an important measure for Yunnan to carry out fine coffee planting and create fine coffee.

Yunnan, located in the southwest of China, has a unique climate and changeable geographical environment. Statistics show that in 2013, the province's coffee planting area reached more than 1.4 million mu, and the output reached more than 80,000 tons, making it the largest coffee producing area in China.

Among them, Lincang City, which is similar in altitude and latitude to Colombia, a coffee country, has become the second largest coffee planting area in Yunnan. In the view of coffee people, one third of Lincang's plantations are below 1300 meters above sea level, and there is great space and potential for developing coffee industry.

"On the basis of 69,600 mu planted in 2011, Lincang City Daxing coffee planting. By the end of 2013, the coffee planting area in the city has reached 554,200 mu." Lincang City Agriculture Bureau Director Wang Kuirong said.

In the opinion of coffee industry insiders, behind the rapid development of Yunnan coffee planting, there is still a lack of local fine coffee brands and extensive planting defects. At present, Yunnan coffee is mainly exported from raw materials, and it is difficult to achieve "high quality and good price" in the absence of a traceability system for coffee product quality.

In this regard, Lincang Lingfeng Coffee Company, which owns 230,000 mu coffee garden, is trying to establish a traceability system that can screen out fine coffee and control the quality of each link by "registering" for coffee base.

Yang Zhiqi, chairman of Lingfeng Coffee Company, introduced that this set of coffee quality traceability system includes registering coffee garden-related information one by one, establishing a perfect coffee garden management system, relying on management, management, supervision and service team, and finally realizing traceability and recall of coffee products.

"In this system, through innovative processing technologies such as mechanical degumming and hot air drying, the fresh coffee can be made into coffee beans within 72 hours, and the fastest can be within one and a half days." Yang Zhiqi said,"Through the coffee quality traceability system, you can find out when coffee is planted, varieties, growth areas, as well as harvest, processing, production, transportation and other information."

According to reports, this system is expected to complete the census registration work by the end of April 2014. At present, a preliminary processing plant using mechanical degumming and hot air drying is being built near the plantation to change the disadvantages of traditional coffee fermentation degumming and drying in the sun.

Li Gongqin, secretary-general of Yunnan Province Coffee Industry Association, said that the construction of coffee product quality traceability system will better subdivide coffee products, realize coffee product quality traceability, improve Yunnan coffee image, increase market competitiveness, and let consumers clearly consume Yunnan coffee.