Thailand is one of the top 25 coffee producer country worldwide, and it is around 25,000 tonnes of coffee per year, and café Amazon operator PTTOR has announced plans to build a coffee centre in Thailand’s Lampang province to meet rising coffee demand across the country.
Dubbed Amazon Park, the 240-acre site will operate as an ‘open organic farm’ and R&D hub, educating Thai coffee farmers on planting, cultivating and harvesting premium quality arabica and robusta coffee.
The project will enable Bangkok-based oil and retail operator PTTOR to expand its domestic contract farmer network and boost coffee supply to its 4,045 Café Amazon sites across the country, according to CEO Disathat Punyarachun.
Café Amazon sites alone require 6,000 tonnes annually according to PTTOR, which estimates total domestic demand at 80,000 tonnes per year.
