Dear Followers, we are in the MIDDLE of changing the format for the Special Origin Focus here at the moment but expect to have the entire series on the Caribbean…
Dear Followers, we are in the MIDDLE of changing the format for the Special Origin Focus here at the moment but expect to have the entire series on the Caribbean…
China is a coffee giant and it’s a fact, even if it’s just now starting to wake up. It’s not only the global economy that moves every time news of…
There is no denying it’s the booming economy that has driven the popularity of coffee in China up with the gross domestic product (GDP) reaching a stunning $12.405 trillion in…
Coffee drinking has been known in China for over 120 years but the local Chinese consumption was primarily maintained by foreign nationals stationed in China up until the 1980s. And…
Total coffee imports by China rose a stunning 29 percent to 2.0 million 60-kilogram bags in the recently completed 2013-14 marketing year from 1.545 million bags in the previous crop…
Coffee growing was introduced to the provinces of Yunnan and Hainan around 1887, most historical accounts agree. A French missionary is believed to have brought the first coffee seedlings into…
Coffee cultivation was never made a priority in China and by 1965 the total cultivated areas was believed to be around 4,000 hectares. That area would quickly go into decline…
Exact data and statistics of the break-down of different types of coffees are not available from China, but local industry sources say Arabica coffee is by far where most of…
China’s rise on the global coffee scene was started over 25 years ago when Swiss food giant Nestle started working with local growers in Yunnan province, improving both yields and…
