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Southern Robusta by volume, northern Arabica by reputation — and the crop that replaced opium.
Production figures are for the 2025/26 crop year.
Thailand grows two quite separate coffees. The volume is Robusta, from the southern peninsula around Chumphon, Ranong and Surat Thani, most of it destined for the domestic instant and ready-to-drink market. The reputation is Arabica, from the northern highlands around Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Nan, where the hill communities grow it at altitude.
Northern Arabica exists because of a deliberate substitution programme. From 1969 the Royal Project introduced coffee, along with other temperate crops, to hill communities as an alternative to opium poppy, providing seedlings, training and a guaranteed route to market. It worked, and it is the reason a country at Thailand's latitude has a highland specialty sector at all. Domestic demand is now strong enough that most of the good Arabica is drunk in Bangkok rather than exported.
Shaded provinces contain growing areas; the crop covers only part of each.
The northern highlands, and the home of Thai specialty Arabica.
The far north-east, a newer Arabica area on the Lao border.
Chumphon and Ranong — nearly all of the country's Robusta.
Northern Arabica is soft and sweet: caramel, milk chocolate and light citrus, with a rounded body and gentle acidity, and increasingly the tropical, winey character that Thailand's very active experimental processing scene produces. Southern Robusta is straightforward — heavy, woody, bitter-sweet — and is built for condensed milk and ice.
Robusta was planted in the south in the early twentieth century and grew into a substantial commodity crop. Arabica in the north dates from the Royal Project's crop-substitution work beginning in 1969, and the sector grew slowly until the domestic café boom of the 2000s and 2010s transformed the economics of growing it well.
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Growing-region markers indicate an area. They are not surveyed farm locations and should not be read as any.