Baihu Mountain

China has been growing coffee for the past several decades; however, the market has been subject to intense and unique swings. In the early 2000s the country saw a large surge in farming activity due to the general increase in coffee consumption both globally and in China. Also contributing to the sugre was at the time low cost labor and land there. Whispers of multinationals opening up large, Brazil-style commercial farms brought a rush of interest in the region’s coffee, mainly centred around the southwestern province of Yunnan, which shares borders with Myanmar and Tibet. Quickly, China’s economy caught up and with the rising cost of labor and land, coffee began to fall out of favor. What coffee remained was solidly commercial. However, Crop to Cup’s in-country staff and long history in China’s specialty coffee scene has allowed us to maintains a direct connection to both small specialty estates for microlots and more specialty focused collectors for larger imports.