The income of Yunnan farmers is decreasing year by year. The plight of Yunnan small-grain coffee, please cherish every cup of coffee.

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Another harvest season, Yunnan coffee harvest. Red and green fresh fruits hang all over the branches. At the end of November in Yunnan, coffee enters the harvest season.

According to the report of [Production and Economics Observation], the income of Yunnan coffee farmers has decreased year by year, and the price this year has dropped by about 30% compared with the same period last year.

Canong looks at the cold market optimistically

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

However, as international coffee prices continue to fall, Yunnan farmers, like their uncle, have encountered problems with low purchase price expectations. It may seem that the coffee industry is thriving, but that has never changed the fortunes of small coffee farmers.

Today's coffee futures price 127.6 cents/pound, converted into RMB equivalent to 18.3 yuan/kg.

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

Uncle Kannon

In this small village of high-altitude coffee-producing Likung Mountain, I met Uncle Feng in the morning. The yard was full of Yunnan katim. Although the brewing was rough, the flavor was still clean.

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

The cost price of coffee beans is between 14 yuan and 15 yuan/kg. It can't be sold now, but it still needs to be planted, otherwise the coffee trees will be cut down and other crops will be planted.

Every barista and roaster has a complex to go to the origin

More and more coffee practitioners go to Yunnan to experience the hard work of being a coffee farmer.

To develop Yunnan coffee, we must first learn to appreciate it ourselves.

Coffee not only delivers mellow flavor,

It's about delivering culture and quality.

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At present, Yunnan is the largest producing area for large-scale cultivation and processing of coffee in China.

Luo Jinming, a farmer in Dakaihe Village, Simao District, Pu 'er City, calculated an account: according to the current price level, the cost of land rent, labor, fertilizer, management and harvesting used to produce one kilogram of fresh fruit is about 2.2 yuan. According to the fresh-dry ratio of 51, the cost of processing one kilogram of dried coffee with shell beans is 11 yuan; If calculated by 75% of the rice rate, one kilogram of coffee with shell beans can be processed into 0.75 kilograms of coffee rice, and the cost price per kilogram of coffee rice is about 14.67 yuan.

The transaction price mainly includes the purchase price and transportation cost of coffee rice. In order to keep the trading price level with the futures price, many companies actually buy coffee in Yunnan at a price 5 to 15 cents lower than the New York futures price to allow for transportation costs. In this way, the acquisition price is likely to fall below the cost price.

That cup of good coffee in your hand,"Spring" from Cannon

How much manpower is involved and how many processes are involved? Coffee Workshop 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.

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Small quantities can be harvested from the third year, and the harvest period starts from October to March of the second year. Coffee fruits are bright red as a sign of ripeness. Fruit picking is also exquisite, can not be randomly picked, the method can be based on: picking from the inside out, single fruit picking, only red mature fruit, like this green, certainly can not be picked. And can not bring fruit handle, at the same time to batch, graded picking, graded packaging, processing separately. At the last harvest, all red and green fruits must be picked. During the fruit picking process, branches should not be damaged, so as not to affect the yield of the next year.

In the past, coffee planting was not as large-scale as it is now, and coffee farmers would not specially invite professional coffee researchers to guide them. They slowly explored from seedling raising, planting, management, picking, primary processing and other links. Arabica planting and harvesting were difficult and could not be mechanized. Coffee beans were picked manually by coffee farmers.

After coffee picking was completed, transportation became a difficult task. The narrow mountain roads could only be transported by motorcycles and hand-guided tractors. In the steeper places, they had to rely on livestock to transport. The difficulty could be imagined...

The peel and pulp are removed (if the processing plant has a machine to peel), leaving only the coffee beans wrapped in the endocarp. At this time, there is still a layer of mucous membrane outside the beans. The process of washing is to wash this layer of mucous membrane.

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

Usually, the coffee beans are dried in the open air, and the heat of sunlight is used to dry the coffee beans to a suitable degree before storage. During this process, coffee beans need to be properly turned to prevent unnecessary fermentation, but they should not be dried too fast, and gradually dried.

Because coffee harvesting season is mostly winter, drying takes about 2 weeks to complete, and the white shell of coffee is also removed manually.

Then bring it to the baker to bake. This kind of work has always been based on "people". The so-called "grain is hard", used in the body of coffee is not too much.

Coffee farmers deal with the land every day. They are not afraid of the wind or the sun. They check from the source of coffee planting. They work diligently in the coffee fields every day and care for every coffee ~

They are farmers!

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, coffee farmers, roasters, baristas, coffee people...