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Changsha residents are expected to drink locally grown coffee

Published: 2026-08-21 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/21, At the coffee bean planting base, a staff member picked a pod shaped like a bean and peeled it off in front of a reporter, exposing brown coffee beans the size of rice grains. Put it in front of your nose and smell the faint aroma of coffee. Now that some coffee beans are ripe, the staff member said that what is grown here is a kind of herbal coffee, which will all be ripe in October.

At the coffee bean growing base, a worker picked a bean-shaped pod and peeled it open in front of reporters, revealing brown beans the size of rice grains. Put it in front of the nose and smell it. The faint coffee fragrance is refreshing. "Some of the beans are ripe now," the worker said. The plant is an herbal coffee that will be fully ripe in October and "ready to drink after roasting and grinding."

According to the person in charge of the base, the base has tried to plant more than 60 acres of coffee since the beginning of this year. When it was first planted, it was too cold and too much precipitation, and "coffee is a tropical crop that can only survive when the temperature reaches above 20 ° C." After several failures, the base summed up a set of planting experience, and finally completed the coffee survival and growth aspects of the experiment. According to reports, the coffee beans of the base are about 150 kilograms per mu this year. The responsible person said that after the technology is fully mature, the coffee bean yield per mu can reach 300-400 kg, and the economic benefit per mu can reach 3000 yuan.

"When the output is available, sales will not be a problem!" The person in charge smiled confidently."At present, some manufacturers of coffee tea and coffee drinks have begun to dock with us."

Coffee bean planting in Changsha is still a new industry, the person in charge said, Will form coffee planting, grinding, roasting, Sales within 3 years,"Establish 3000 mu coffee bean planting base, Let Changsha people drink local coffee."

According to reports, in China, coffee beans are only grown in a few areas such as Yunnan. At present, most of the coffee on the market in Changsha City is woody coffee imported from abroad.

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