diff --git a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
index 26e9b2fdb07a6..dde1db7e693de 100644
--- a/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
+++ b/doc/source/development/contributing.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,6 @@ 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