Despite what one might think, China being an important tea producing and consuming country, quite a number of people are involved in coffee production. Coffee is mainly grown in Yunnan province and over 80,000 people are engaged in its cultivation. One of the objectives of NAS is to support these coffee farmers with free training and technical assistance. We also operate a coffee buying station to give the farmers an opportunity to sell their produce, though the farmers are free to sell to whatever buyer they want.
The Experimental and Demonstration Farm in Jinghong is the third part of our activities here. Besides being a location that can be used for training and demonstration of various techniques involved in coffee cultivation and processing, we also carry out tests on different coffee varieties and the impact of processing methods on coffee quality.
And this is, in a nutshell, what I'm doing here.