BEIJING, Nov. 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — 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…
