Banka farm and washing station is based in Mengalian Dai, Lahu and Va Autonomous County, Yunnan and is named after the two adjacent villages (Banka Yi and Banka Er) where the coffee cherry is harvested.
Our origin partners, Yunnan Coffee Traders manage Banka wet mill and a portion of the Banka farm, some 100 hectares of land, installing one of the region’s first optical sorters, experimenting with processing methods such as yeast fermentation and growing new varieties such as Pacamara and Yellow Bourbon.
Indochina has worked in partnership with YCT since we first began importing coffees to the UK in 2016. As a pioneer of the Chinese specialty coffee industry in the Menglian County of Yunnan, YCT operates farming, mill, research, and training facilities.
Its mission is three fold:
Create opportunities for Yunnan farmers to engage in sustainable production practices.
Employ industry best-practices for sourcing, processing, wholesaling, and exporting coffees.
Supply coffee to importers and roasters who care about sustainability, traceability, and transparency.
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The SCA scale is like the coffee world's treasure map! It rates coffee from 1 to 100, and if your brew hits 80+, it's a true gem (a specialty). But remember, it's not just about the numbers, it's about the adventure – taste the story and support the farmers! 🌟
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More Information On This Coffee
It’s not quite as fanciful as Ethiopia’s origin claim over coffee, but French missionaries first brought coffee plants to China in the late 1800s, predominately planting in Yunnan, the most southwestern province (which benefits from the Tropic of Cancer running though the south). China’s coffee growth didn’t cause much of a stir until the 90s when big companies, such as Nestlé and Starbucks, began investing. Today, coffee is cultivated across 120,000 hectares – still small-talk when you consider tea’s claim to over 3 million hectares of land.
But the direction of coffee production and consumption is changing. 400 million millennials have opened-up the demand for coffee in China – long viewed as a luxury, rather than a daily ritual – with this mid 80s-early noughties generation influenced by the larger coffee landscape, looking to drink out or takeaway from a cafe, rather than a cup of instant at home. Enter, the burgeoning speciality coffee scene, and the world stage.
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