The construction of the large-scale project NestlŽ Coffee Centre officially starts in the Pu’er Industrial Park on 9 March. The centre will significantly enhance the ability to provide training and technical support to coffee farmers and coffee practitioners and further strengthen and promote the development of Pu’er coffee industry. It is expected to be put into operation in the 2015-2016 coffee purchase season. The NestlŽ Coffee Centre will consist of two parts. One part will include the NestlŽ Coffee Farming Institute and Green Coffee Quality laboratory, which provides training to coffee farmers, agronomists and coffee professionals and is designed to be the largest training base of its kind in China; the other will be a modern storage facility.