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It is another year's harvest season, Yunnan coffee is generally a bumper harvest. Fresh red and green fruits hang all over the branches, and coffee enters the harvest season in Yunnan at the end of November.

According to the report of Industry and Economic observation, the income of Yunnan farmers has decreased year by year, and the price this year is about 30% lower than that of the same period last year.

Ka Nong is optimistic about the cold market

But at present, international coffee futures prices are continuing to fall. In November, coffee futures in New York were trading at just 107 cents per pound, equivalent to 14.3 yuan per kilogram. This is slightly lower than the current planting cost of Yunnan farmers about 14.67 yuan / kg.

However, as the international price of coffee continues to fall, Yunnan farmers like Uncle Ka Nong Feng have encountered the problem of low purchase price expectations. It seems that the coffee industry is booming, but this has never changed the situation of small farmers who produce coffee.

Today's coffee futures price is 127.6 cents per pound, which is equivalent to 18.3 yuan per kilogram.

In the face of the current dilemma, farmers are also planning a way out.

Uncle Kanong Feng

In the small village of Ligong Mountain, a high-altitude coffee producing area, I met Uncle Kanong Feng early in the morning. The yard is full of Katim in Yunnan Province. Although the brewing is rugged, the flavor is still clean.

As farmers, while working hard, they will also enjoy the fruits of their work. In the base, with the fragrance and natural scenery of the soil, they brew a pot of coffee in a simple way, which has a different flavor.

The cost price of coffee beans is between 14 yuan and 15 yuan per kilogram. They can't start selling now, but they still have to plant them, or else they will cut down all the coffee trees and plant other crops.

Every barista and baker has a complex of going to the country of origin.

More and more coffee practitioners go to Yunnan origin to experience the hardship of being a farmer.

In order to develop Yunnan coffee, we must first learn to appreciate it.

In addition to transmitting mellow flavor, coffee

But also to convey a kind of culture and quality.

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At present, Yunnan is the largest coffee growing and processing area in China.

Luo Jinming, a farmer in Dakaihe Village, Simao District, Pu'er City, calculated that according to the current price level, the cost of producing one kilogram of fresh fruit is about 2.2 yuan for land rent, labor, fertilizer, management and protection, and harvesting. The cost of processing one kilogram of dried coffee with shell beans is 11 yuan. If calculated according to the rice yield of 75%, one kilogram of coffee with shell beans can be processed into 0.75 kilograms of coffee rice, and the cost price of each kilogram of coffee rice is about 14.67 yuan.

The transaction price mainly includes the purchase price and transportation cost of coffee and rice. In order to keep the trading price in line with the futures price, in fact, when many companies buy coffee in Yunnan, the purchase price is 5 to 15 cents lower than the New York futures price to set aside transportation costs. In this way, the purchase price is likely to fall below the cost price.

The good cup of coffee in your hand comes from the "Spring" of the farmer.

How much manpower is involved and how many processes are involved? The coffee shop introduces you from a small coffee bean to a cup of strong coffee.

First of all, from sowing, transplanting seedlings to growing into trees, it usually takes 3 to 4 years for coffee seedlings to grow into coffee trees.

Photo source: Yunnan origin of coffee workshop

It can be harvested in small quantities from the third year, and the harvest period begins in October and ends in March of the following year. The bright red color of the coffee fruit is a sign of maturity. Fruit picking is also fastidious, can not be picked randomly, the method can be based on: picking from the inside to the outside, single fruit picking, only red mature fruit, like this green, definitely can not be picked. And can not take the fruit handle, at the same time, should be picked in batches, graded picking, graded packing, and processed separately. When picking the last fruit, all the red and green fruits should be picked. The branches should not be damaged in the process of fruit picking, so as not to affect the yield of the following year.

In the past, coffee cultivation was not as large-scale as it is now, and coffee farmers would not specifically ask coffee people who specialize in coffee to provide guidance. They fumbled slowly from the aspects of seedling raising, planting, management, picking, and initial processing. Arabica is difficult to grow and harvest, and cannot be mechanized. Coffee beans are picked manually by farmers.

After coffee picking is completed, transportation has also become a relatively difficult thing. The basic transportation of narrow mountain roads can only be carried by motorcycles and walking tractors, and in steeper places, it is also transported by cattle. You can imagine the hardship.

Remove the peel and pulp (if it is a processing plant, there will be a machine peeling), leaving only coffee beans wrapped in endocarp. At this time, there is a layer of mucous membrane on the outside of the beans, and the process of washing is to wash this layer of mucous membrane.

Peel off, wash off its mucous membrane like hand washing, or build a sink to clean it.

Coffee beans are usually dried in the open air and stored with the help of the heat of the sun. In this process, coffee beans need to be properly flipped to prevent unnecessary fermentation, but should not be dried too quickly and step by step.

As the coffee harvest season is mostly in winter, drying takes about 2 weeks to complete, and the white shell of the coffee is removed manually.

Then give it to the baker to bake, this kind of work has always been based on "people". As the saying goes, "every grain is the hard work of farmers". It is not too much to use it on coffee.

Ka farmers deal with the land every day, they are not afraid of the wind or the sun, they check from the source of coffee cultivation, they work diligently in the coffee field every day, taking care of every grain of coffee.

They are cannon!

Please cherish every cup of coffee we drink. Behind this cup of coffee, there is a unique taste in each coffee fruit. It gathers the intentions of many people, such as farmers, bakers, baristas and baristas.