Dehong Coffee

Dehong Coffee

Dehong Coffee is a geographical indication certification trademark.

　　The cultivation of coffee in Dehong has a history of over a hundred years. In 1914, Dehong began introducing small-grain coffee from Myanmar for planting. Starting in 1953, local coffee cultivation began on a larger scale, and by the late 1960s, the coffee planting area in Dehong had reached 15,000 mu, with an output of over 4,000 tons. Later, affected by various factors, the production of small-grain coffee in Dehong declined, and most of the coffee fields were converted to other crops. The coffee grown in Dehong Prefecture is mainly of the small-grain variety (i.e., Arabica), which features excellent varieties, high quality, and great flavor. It once set the national record for the highest yield per unit area, reaching 363.5 kilograms of coffee beans (the average yield per mu of coffee beans in China is about 80–100 kilograms). Since 1998, the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government have designated Dehong as one of the province’s key coffee-producing areas and provided strong support. By the end of 2010, the coffee planting area in Dehong Prefecture had reached 139,000 mu, with over 70,000 mu in production, yielding more than 11,000 tons of dried coffee beans annually. Both the planting area and production accounted for about one-third of the province’s total.

　　Currently, Dehong coffee products are exported to more than 20 countries and regions including the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Europe, making coffee one of the major export commodities in Dehong's foreign trade. Dehong has become China’s most concentrated, largest, highest-yielding, and best-quality main coffee-producing area, playing a pivotal role in the nation’s and the province’s coffee industries. It is truly the “Hometown of Coffee in China.”