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How much is Yunnan coffee per jin?

Whether it is a chain of coffee brands or independent cafes, any cup of espresso sells for more than 30 yuan. For popular consumer drinks, this price undoubtedly belongs to the medium-to-high price. So will coffee bean growers, as one of the main ingredients of coffee, become the big winners in the coffee consumption market?

The answer may be disappointing: not only are farmers (the same below) not the big winner, but they may also be the biggest loser in the entire coffee industry chain. Because they are not only the least profit allocated in this industry chain, but also the busiest.

Today, we would like to take this opportunity to show you the most real situation of Ka Nong.

From coffee planting to a cup of coffee presented to consumers, coffee beans have gone through the process of planting, picking, initial processing, trade, roasting and terminal. In this industry chain, the hardest may be the front-end farmers.

1. There is only one season of fruit each year.

For farmers, the main thing they do is planting and picking.

Take Yunnan as an example (Yunnan is the largest coffee growing area in China, accounting for 95% of the total number of coffee in China). It takes three years for a coffee tree to grow to bear fruit, and it will bear coffee fruit every year after three years, but it only produces one season a year. Yunnan coffee in China is basically picked in November every year, until February and March of the following year.

Since coffee is produced only once a year, it means that coffee production is much lower than other cash crops for more than a year.

2. The output per season is limited

There is no doubt that Yunnan is a place favored by nature, where there are many outstanding people and a lot of cash crops that can be planted with high value, so the land that chooses to grow coffee is generally not fertile. At the same time, in the early years, coffee farmers blindly pursued the yield and overused chemical fertilizers and pesticides, resulting in the current coffee farmland more barren. Combining the above two points, the yield of coffee per mu in Yunnan is lower than that in other countries.

At present, the average annual output of coffee beans in Yunnan is about 100 kilograms per mu.

3. A variety of low-value coffee plants

Coffee belongs to imported products, and coffee planting technology also belongs to imported products. Coffee was not planted on a large scale in Yunnan until the 1960s. However, due to the backwardness of coffee planting technology, Yunnan Katim variety was chosen as the choice of Katim variety (this variety has strong disease resistance and high survival rate of coffee trees). The Katim variety is easy to grow corresponding to the low economic value of the variety.

Take the newly processed Katim coffee beans as an example, the price of first-grade beans hovered around 20 yuan a few years ago, fell directly to 15 yuan in recent years, and finally only 10 yuan / kg was distributed to farmers.

If we refer to the yield of coffee beans per mu, it means that the output value of a coffee farmer is only 1000 yuan per mu, and the annual income of a farmer with 10 mu of coffee land is only 10, 000 yuan.

4. Unable to operate mechanized

Coffee is mainly grown on hillsides, similar to tea. Due to the complex terrain, coffee planting and picking can not be mechanized, almost all done manually.

If the demand for labor is limited in the planting season, but once the picking season comes, we need to hire a large number of short-term workers to help with the picking. At present, the labor cost in Yunnan is rising (at present, the daily salary of short-term workers in Yunnan is about 100 yuan a day), which has become a great cost for farmers.

If we say that the output of coffee beans is low, the economic value is low, and the labor cost is rising year by year, it is the despair of the coffee industry that makes them feel that they have nothing to love.

It looks like 30 yuan for a cup of coffee, but coffee growers may earn only 0.2 yuan.

Where does this number come from?

An ordinary cup of coffee generally requires 15 grams of coffee beans. Calculated at 10 yuan per kilogram, the price of raw coffee beans is only 0.15 yuan.

After despair, you cut down trees.

As the price of coffee beans falls, the price may not cover the cost of manual picking. Therefore, in Yunnan, some farmers have directly cut down coffee trees covered with coffee fruits. For this land, farmers have only two choices: abandon it or choose to grow other cash crops.

We have always stressed that coffee beans in Brazil do not necessarily represent good coffee, and coffee beans in Yunnan do not necessarily represent bad coffee.

There are many excellent coffee enterprises in Yunnan. In order to defend the coffee industry in Yunnan, they have been persisting in producing all kinds of coffee products, including coffee powder, instant, ear bags, roasted beans, freshly ground coffee, capsule coffee and so on. And their coffee beans all come from our own coffee beans-Yunnan small seed coffee beans.

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