Myanmar

Shan State in Myanmar Myanmar has only recently been creating specialty coffees but is doing so with impressive speed and results. Hopong was able to organise coffee farmers from two villages in just one year and collectively process their very first batch of sun dried natural coffee - and even find an export outlet in the same season thanks to Sara Morrocchi.Fed up with secretly producing opium for drug lords while being prosecut- ed by authorities on the one hand, and selling poorly processed coffee to brokers and middlemen on the other, the Hopong farmers started looking for a new way of life. Growing Region Shan State in Myanmar. Harvest Method Hand Picked Altitude 1100 - 1600m Processing Sun Dried Natural Process