Yunnan Coffee Plantation in Spring all year round

Coffee bean flowers are also very beautiful, dark green leaves on the branches, with a strong aroma of white flowers, after a few months, bear cherry-like red fruit. Yunnan coffee belongs to Arabica tree species, so it is self-pollinated without insects (insects are only interested in the flowers of Robster trees). Whether the coffee tree blossoms or not depends on whether Rain Water is abundant or not, and it will take 7-9 months to fully mature. If it rains a few times throughout the year, it can blossom several times. Interestingly, in a tree, there will be blooming flowers, immature coffee fruit, fully ripe coffee fruit, and overripe coffee fruit. (coffee flowers 1, 2)

The process of turning coffee from flower to fruit is also interesting. At first, the fruit has a thick, shiny green skin, and then turns crimson (what we see now is the process of crimson), rarely turns yellow and turns brown (coffee beans) when ripe. (coffee transition process)

It was the end of November when I came to the Yunnan coffee plantation. In Yunnan, which is like spring all year round, there seems to be no cold, only the season of fruit harvest, the joy of harvest! A group of people are fiercely hand-picked (pickers go to the same botanical garden several times in a few weeks, resulting in high-quality products. This method of picking ensures the consistency of the size and ripening of the coffee fruit. Also ensure that there is enough flesh in the fruit) a lot of red fruit, a lot of harvest. However, it is really difficult for us laymen to take the coffee beans out of the fruit. Fortunately, someone explained its process to us. (characters)

A farmer who is picking coffee beans said that the coffee harvest is very good this year, with about one and a half tons of fresh coffee fruit per mu. The annual output of fresh coffee fruit per mu is 1500 kg, with an average of 1000 kg. After peeling, fermentation, shelling and other initial processing, the annual output of raw coffee beans is 80-160kg, with an average of 120kg. The output in 2007 is obviously better than that in previous years.

Little tips: another way is to "pick the light" ("picking the light" is to pass the branch between the fingers and pick off all the coffee fruit on it, for better or worse. Then, some unwanted ingredients such as leaves, wood and stones should be picked out from the pulp, which is dried in the sun for a few days. when the skin and flesh are completely dry, the coffee fruit is peeled in the machine, and the pulp and sheepskin paper hard skin comes out. the raw beans are covered with a layer of silver, and the next step is to grade them by type (normal beans and round beans) and size. This is the dry process to get dry coffee, also known as natural coffee. )

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There are two ancient ways to get coffee beans out of the fruit, dry and wet. Yunnan small seed coffee is washed (only for hand-picked cases), because the washed Arabica coffee tastes significantly fresher, more fragrant, floral, wine, and sometimes grassy. If you dry the same kind of coffee, it will only remind people of mineral oil and carbon. Good quality coffee needs value for money! At present, the washing method is mostly used in Simao area, while some dry cleaning methods are also used in some areas of Baoshan, Yunnan Province. In Taiwan, dry cleaning is mainly used for raw coffee beans due to the influence of water resources and taste.