diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
index 027f2d90bbb73..dc7e2c7058fbc 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ We'll now kick off a three-step process:
    # Create and activate the build environment
    conda env create -f environment.yml
    conda activate pandas-dev
+   conda uninstall --force pandas
 
    # or with older versions of Anaconda:
    source activate pandas-dev