No origin matches that.
A specialty sector barely a decade old, built on Shan State highlands that had grown coffee for a century.
Production figures are for the 2024 calendar year.
Myanmar's Arabica grows in the hills of southern Shan State and around Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay Region, between roughly 1,000 and 1,600 metres, with Robusta in lower and wetter areas. Coffee has been grown here since the colonial period, but for most of that time it went into the domestic market as undifferentiated commodity, processed with little attention and sold by weight.
That changed quickly after 2014, when the country's opening brought development programmes, specialty buyers and training in washed processing and selective picking. Myanmar coffee went from unknown to regularly placing in international competitions within a few years. The political situation since 2021 has made export and finance considerably harder, and the sector's trajectory is now much less certain than it looked at the end of the 2010s.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
Ywangan and the hills around Kalaw — the centre of the specialty sector.
The Mandalay highlands, and the country's oldest continuous plantings.
Sweet and clean, with orange and stone-fruit acidity, caramel and brown sugar, and a medium body — the profile sits somewhere between a Central American and a milder Ethiopian. Naturals from Ywangan and Pyin Oo Lwin lean into berry and tropical fruit and are what most of the country's competition results have come from.
Arabica was introduced by British administrators and missionaries in the late nineteenth century, with Robusta following in the lowlands. Coffee remained a minor domestic crop through decades of isolation. Sustained quality investment began around 2014 through USAID and other development-funded programmes working with grower cooperatives in Shan State and Mandalay.
Every vote tells us which pages to work on next.
Country outlines and shaded relief from Natural Earth, which places them in the public domain.
Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.