A brief introduction to the Market Price of Katim Fine Coffee Bean grown at low altitude

Katim, as a variety that has taken root in Yunnan, I love and hate it. Although it has many shortcomings and is not suitable for planting at high altitude at all, there is still a lot of room for improvement and it has become better and better. How to find more of its advantages and make use of it is the most important. In the popular shallow baking pursuit of sour aroma to enhance the sweet taste of the domestic circle, it appears to be insufficient thickness. But few people realize that because of Katim's Romsta pedigree, it is suitable for deep and fast baking.

In the eyes of most Chinese, Yunnan Coffee is Yunnan small Coffee. Many people even think that Yunnan Xiaogi is a coffee tree. Perhaps in the eyes of many businessmen, this name means business opportunities, but in my eyes, this name is dispensable, he is at best a brand, absolutely can not be regarded as a coffee variety. Since we talk about the varieties of coffee in Yunnan, we have to mention "Catimor Katim". This coffee variety was introduced by Nestl é and then improved and hybridized into CIFC7963, which is now widely cultivated in Yunnan. The original seed is a hybrid of Timor Hybrid and Caturra. It is characterized by high yield of Caturra, dwarf of plant and strong disease resistance of timor. In the early days of its birth, Katim was considered by the industry to have a bad taste because of timor's Romsta pedigree. However, with the continuous improvement of varieties, the cup test of the sixth generation of F6 Katim has been on a par with that of Kaddura and Kaduai planted at low altitude. However, there is still a big gap between planting in high altitude areas and other varieties.

Some varieties are derived from natural gene mutations, while others are the products of artificial cross breeding or acquired breeding of native species. Arabica species are self-pollinating plants, and their genetic lineage should be quite pure. However, Tibika species and bourbon species have been brought to new countries, foreign climate conditions lead to natural gene mutations, and the characteristics of cultivated new varieties are mostly gratifying.

The story of robusta coffee is roughly the same, but it was not until 1895 that the species was officially classified into the botanical classification system (Arabica species was 1753). Robusta coffee is native to West Africa and has been grown in Java and spread all over the world. Like Arabica coffee, there are many varieties of robusta coffee, but most of them have a mediocre flavor, and the unimpressive Tibica is the original species of all Arabica varieties. It is said that Tibika originated in southern Sudan, flourished in Ethiopia and was finally planted in Yemen for commercial production around the 7th century AD. Tibica was brought to the East Indies by the Dutch and was the first coffee variety to come to the West Indies, where Gabriel de Klee was planted in French Martinique in 1720.

The ripe fruit of Tibica is red. The yield of this variety is relatively low and its disease resistance is extremely poor, but its excellent cup test quality still makes it popular all over the world.

The blending method of sugar juice is to melt sugar and water at the ratio of 4:6 to make it cool naturally. It should be noted that too much water will make the coffee taste lighter, and too little water will not be easy to dissolve with the coffee. After blending, you can keep the sugar machine in the refrigerator for a while.

Its bubble method is more or less the same as filter paper, but the coffee taste is more detailed, it can make the coffee bitter. Sour taste and other characteristics are completely presented, but the inconvenience of flannel filter is in maintenance, cleaning and finishing. When using it for the first time, rinse it with hot water, then boil it in boiling water soaked in coffee powder or tea dregs for 10 minutes to remove the stench of the cloth, then rinse with water, rinse clean with hot water after use, soak in cold water and store. Remember not to use soap or dry directly, otherwise it will produce a bad smell. When refrigerated, it is best to put it in an airtight container so as not to stain the smell of other foods.

Brewing step: remove the filter from the water, gently wring the water with your hand, pour the coffee powder into the filter with the plush facing outward, gently shake, drop the boiling water into the coffee, from the center to the surrounding, do not inject too much at one time, lest the coffee powder begin to expand, produce fine foam from the filter and lower a few drops of coffee liquid from the filter. When the coffee liquid becomes light brown, remove the filter immediately. Sometimes when the foam is mixed with impure substances, the taste of the coffee will get worse, and after the extraction, the central part will not sink, and there will be no foam left on the surface.

The field management measures are suitable for the management of general small-grain coffee. Propagation method: adopt seed propagation, select 5-year-old fine mother tree, harvest fully mature, fruit shape is normal, full, size is basically the same, with two-seed fruit as seed, using sand bed to promote germination, plastic bag seedling.

Selection of suitable forest land

The annual mean temperature is 19-21 ℃ years, the accumulated temperature of annual ≥ 10 ℃ is more than 6800 ℃, the coldest monthly mean temperature is more than 11.5 ℃, the absolute lowest temperature is above 1 ℃, the coldest monthly mean temperature is ≥ 11.5 ℃, the monthly mean temperature of ≤ 13 ℃ is more than two months, the extremely lowest general year is more than 0 ℃, and some years appear areas of-1 ℃ or short-2 ℃. Below 1200m above sea level, the annual rainfall ≥ 1100mm; the soil should be fertile loam, loose soil, good drainage, PH value of 66.5, slope less than 25 °sunny slope gentle slope, platform planting, avoid planting in the depression where cold air is easy to deposit.

To put it another way, Colombia is the biggest harvest of the new variety of Katim, and the improved Katim with the national name "Colombia" Katim and Kaddura are their two main varieties, with a proportion of about 6:4. These were told by my Colombian colleagues during the 2010 World Expo as a Chinese coffee consultant in Costa Rica. So those friends who flip through the coffee beans printed in Supermo bags and say how Katim in Yunnan had no flavor last time, please pay more attention to the coffee in Yunnan.