Xinhua Silk Road: SW. China's Pu'er City becomes golden growing belt for Arabica coffee
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BEIJING, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
Pu'er, a city situated in Yunnan Province, southwest China, has developed
itself into a global golden growing belt for Arabica coffee, reputed broadly as
the "heaven of Arabica".
With the first coffee seed introduced into the locality more than a century
ago, the city started large-scale coffee plantation as early as in 1988.
Boasting an extraordinarily high 74.59 percent of forest coverage and abundant
natural resources, the city almost lies completely within the world golden
plantation belt for coffee and is the capital of coffee in China.
In 2020, coffee plantation areas in Pu'er City reached 51,733.33 hectares,
accounting for 48.8 percent of the national total and coffee bean output
reached 58,600 tonnes, taking up more than 80 percent of the comparable
aggregate in China.
Impressed by the rapid development of coffee industry in Pu'er City, Ted
Lingle, former executive director of Specialty Coffee Association of America
(SCAA), said that Pu'er coffee is one of the best coffees in the world, strong
and fragrant but not bitter, rich in fat and strong in acidity.
Lingle, who has been invited to be the senior consultant of Yunnan
International Coffee Exchange since 2015, is fond of Pu'er coffee. In every
coffee harvest season, Lingle always tells global coffee merchants that coffee
has found a "new home" in China.
Recent years, Pu'er coffee has gained more and more acknowledgement from coffee
industry at home and abroad. The city was nodded to be the location for key
national coffee laboratory and Yunnan small-grain coffee seed breeding base
together with many other coffee research and educational institutions.
By far, more than 20,000 hectares of coffee plantation areas in Pu'er City have
been certified as 4C compliant coffee. Over 6,666.67 hectares of growing areas
got C.A.F.E. Practices verification. More than 1,333.33 hectares of planting
areas obtained Rainforest Alliance and UTZ certifications.
In September 2020, Pu'er coffee was formally included in the first batch of
products on the protection list of China-EU geographical indications agreement.
In Pu'er City, global coffee merchants can always find specialty coffees in
accordance with international specialty coffee standards, said Ted Lingle,
hoping that more people can learn about and try coffee produced in Yunnan
Province.
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Source: Xinhua Silk Road
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