Brief (coffeeyo.com): At the September 17 opening of the China Tropical Crops (Coffee) Industry Conference in Kunming, released data showed Yunnan coffee in 2025 reached 1.5188 million mu in planting area and 170,700 tons in output—both over 98% of the national total—with whole-chain output value hitting 99.5 billion yuan as the industry shifts from “selling raw material by the ton” to “tasting flavor by the cup.”
KUNMING, Sept. 17 (People’s Daily Online) (Hu Zunhui) — On the morning of September 17, the China Tropical Crops (Coffee) Industry Conference opened in Kunming, Yunnan. Data released at the conference showed that in 2025 Yunnan’s coffee planting area reached 1.5188 million mu and output 170,700 tons, both over 98% of the national total, with whole-industry-chain output value reaching 99.5 billion yuan.
Yunnan is China’s core coffee-producing region, with a planting history of over 130 years. Sitting on the global coffee golden growing belt, its high-altitude environment, large day-night temperature difference and excellent soil conditions lay a solid foundation for the quality of arabica coffee. During the 14th Five-Year Plan, Yunnan’s coffee specialty rate leapt from 8% to 41.7%, and its deep-processing rate rose from 20% to 85%; the coffee industry is transforming from “selling raw material by the ton” to “tasting flavor by the cup.”
In seed-industry innovation, Yunnan has built the country’s largest coffee germplasm repository, preserving over 1,500 coffee germplasm resources, and has independently bred 22 coffee varieties; the disease-resistant, high-quality new “Yunka” and “Dere” series have passed examination and entered demonstration and promotion, with superior-variety planting area reaching 318,000 mu.
On the planting end, Yunnan vigorously promotes the renovation and upgrade of old, low-yield coffee gardens, spreading advanced cultivation models such as soil improvement, water-fertilizer integration and green ecological control; 16 coffee enterprises across the province have earned green-food certification for 60 products, covering 95,800 mu of base area.
In processing, Yunnan concentrates on building four deep-processing clusters—Pu’er, Baoshan, Kunming and Dehong—with deep-processing capacity near 100,000 tons; roasted beans, coffee concentrate, freeze-dried powder, coffee-peel tea and other specialty products keep emerging, and an all-chain processing pattern is rapidly taking shape.
In agriculture-cultural-tourism integration, Yunnan has built nearly 60 premium coffee manors, 14 rated as provincial premium coffee manors, and developed new formats such as fresh-cherry picking, process observation, cupping and tasting, and science-popularization study tours, realizing deep blending of the coffee industry with rural tourism.
In linking farmers to agriculture, Yunnan tightly connects coffee farmers through models such as order production, wage employment and profit returns, covering over 200,000 farm households and driving nearly one million practitioners. Xinzhai Village in Longling County, Baoshan, developed its coffee industry through a “party branch + enterprise + cooperative + farmer” model; coffee farmers’ per-capita income exceeds 40,000 yuan, earning it the name “China’s No.1 Coffee Village.”
Holding this conference in Yunnan will help converge national industry resources, research strength and operating entities to crack common difficulties in germplasm innovation, standard building, brand cultivation and market development, driving the high-quality development of Yunnan’s coffee industry.
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