In a country where a sachet of instant coffee costs just 50 kyats, how can you convince consumers to savor a cup of premium coffee for upwards of 2000 kyats? This is just one of the many hurdles that Myanmar’s coffee industry needs to overcome in order to develop in to a more profitable model. […]
What’s brewing? Myanmar’s growing coffee industry
September 29, 2016 by thiha
Filed Under: Latest News Tagged With: Bar Boon, Coffee Quality Institute, CQI, Daw Su Su Hlaing, Gloria Jean, HORECA, Mandalay Coffee Group, Myanmar, Pyin Oo Lwin, Sithar Coffee, U Thu Zaw, Value Chains for Rural Development, Winrock International, Yangon, Ywar Ngan
Myanmar’s coffee growers bank on specialty niche
June 22, 2016 by thiha
MANDALAY, Myanmar — When Tin Win Win opened Fuji Coffee House and Restaurant in Yangon in 1996, she had to make special trips abroad to source quality coffee beans. “She used to hand carry back Brazilian and African beans and process them with a mini-roaster,” recalled her son, Thu Zaw, who now heads the family’s […]
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Myanmar Coffee Association holding 2nd Annual Coffee Cupping Competition competition
March 15, 2016 by thiha
The Myanmar Coffee Association (MCA) is holding the 2nd Annual Certified Coffee Cupping Competition in Pyin Oo Lwin from March 12-16 at the Mandalay Coffee Group Co. Ltd.’s processing plant, Anisakan, Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay-Lashio By-Pass Road, Mandalay Division, according to NGO Winrock International, on 14 March. Up to 60 coffee samples submitted by farmers […]
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