The History Of Doi Chaang

The Doi Chang Village community sits on a mountainous hillside within the Chiang Rai province of Northern Thailand. The region is in the notorious “Golden Triangle” alongside Burma and Laos, where Opium growing has long been the main way of life. In 1983, as part of the Royal Initiative, the Akha hill tribe farmers of Doi Chang Village received high quality Arabica coffee plants and instructions on how to cultivate and process coffee. In order to break away from the oppressive and dangerous Opium trade. 

After 20 years of successfully cultivating and processing coffee, the farming families grew frustrated selling their high quality beans to international coffee dealers for minimal prices. Through their own initiative, and with the assistance of Mr. Wicha and Mr. John M. Dach, the families united to create their own coffee company "DOI CHAANG" and began directly offering the unique taste of their own single-estate, premium Arabica coffee.

Now, Doi Chang coffee plantation covers more than 6000 acres. With rich fertile soil, high elevations and ample rainfall make Doi Chang Village one of the premium coffee growing regions of the world. We naturally cultivate a variety of Arabica plants under a canopy of plum, peach, pear, and macadamia nut trees in altitudes between 1200 and 1600 meters above sea level. The fallen leaves from various fruit and nut trees create nutritious mulch for the coffee plants, providing a subtle fruit and nutty taste to the coffee cherries, creating a more complex, dense and intensely flavored bean.