Yunnan coffee beans will increase production without increasing income to ensure that the purchase price is not less than 15 yuan / kg.

It is the 2015 / 2016 harvest season for Yunnan coffee beans, and according to the Yunnan Coffee Industry Association, Yunnan coffee bean production will reach about 130000 tons this year. In the past two years, the price of coffee beans in Yunnan is also like a roller coaster, rising to 25 yuan / kg in the first ten days of last year and then falling all the way. Until recently, the purchase price of coffee beans in Yunnan is still hovering around 15 yuan / kg. In this regard, Yunnan coffee leading enterprise Hougu Coffee announced in this purchasing season that it will convert into RMB according to the New York coffee futures price, minus the transportation cost for Yunnan coffee bean harvest quotation.

"the harvest season for coffee beans is from October to April of the following year, and at present, some of the fresh fruits of coffee beans have become red." Li Hua (a pseudonym), who grows more than 20 mu of coffee beans in Dehong, told reporters, "the weather is fine this year, the coffee bean hanging rate is also very high, this year should usher in a bumper harvest year." Indeed, recently, the relevant person in charge of the Yunnan Coffee Association also said that Yunnan coffee beans are expected to increase this year. According to him, up to now, the planting area of coffee beans in Yunnan is more than 1.8 million mu, and the output in the new season is expected to be about 130000 tons. According to the data released by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture, the planting area of coffee beans in Yunnan reached 1.87 million mu in 2014, with an output of 118000 tons. However, the bumper harvest of coffee beans this year did not delight Li Hua. On the contrary, it was the persistently depressed coffee bean prices that made Li Hua worried about the revenue of coffee beans this year. "in fact, the price of coffee beans has been on a downward trend in recent years, but it rose in the first ten days of last year, rising to about 25 yuan / kg at one time, but not continuously, but all the way down. If the price is not good, the cost is there, even if the yield of coffee beans is high, it is still difficult to guarantee. " Not only that, the price of coffee futures in New York has also fallen continuously this year. At the beginning of this year, the price of coffee futures in New York was about 150 cents / pound, but until recently, the price of coffee futures in New York has dropped to about 117 cents / lb. equivalent to less than 15 yuan / kg.

And the price of 15 yuan / kg is only the cost price for Yunnan farmers. Li Hua roughly calculated to the reporter that the cost of producing 1 kilogram of fresh fruit is about 2.2 yuan for land rent, labor, fertilizer, management and harvest, and the ratio of dry to fresh (5:1). The cost of processing 1 kilogram of coffee beans with shell beans is 11 yuan; if calculated according to the rice yield of 0.75, that is, one kilogram of coffee with shell beans can be processed into 0.75kg coffee rice, and the cost price per kilogram of coffee rice is 14.67 yuan. "Cafe farmers' cost of growing coffee is 14 yuan / kg. If enterprises lease land, the cost of employing external workers will be a little higher, and the cost price is about 16 yuan / kg," said the chairman of Dehong Hougu Coffee Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Hougu Coffee).

And according to Hu Lu, deputy secretary general of the Yunnan Coffee Industry Association, "according to the usual practice, when enterprises buy Yunnan coffee beans, they will usually subtract 10 cents from the futures price of coffee in New York. According to the current price, it will not exceed 15 yuan / kg. At this price, it is inevitable that there will be no bumper harvest." Hu Lu said, "globally, only the purchase price of coffee beans in Yunnan is lower than that of New York futures, and this bidding system has been maintained in Yunnan for 27 years." At present, the purchase price of coffee beans in Vietnam is generally higher than that quoted by the London Futures Exchange at US $70 per ton, while the offer from Colombia is basically higher than the New York futures price by 40 cents per pound, while Brazil is quoted according to the New York futures price. The average annual output of Yunnan coffee beans over the past 27 years is 60, 000 tons, which is lower than that of New York coffee futures and the loss to Yunnan farmers is more than 3.4 billion yuan. "

Based on this, the purchase price of Hougu coffee beans has been quoted recently, which is in line with the coffee futures price in New York. Xiong Xiangren said, "according to the New York futures price, minus the transportation cost, Hougu Coffee will increase the harvest price per ton of Yunnan coffee beans by about 1500 yuan in this year's harvest season, and in the 2015 / 2016 Yunnan coffee harvest season, enterprises will pay hundreds of millions of yuan more, and this hundreds of millions of yuan will directly benefit Yunnan farmers." In addition, Hougu Coffee will also promise that the first-class Yunnan coffee beans will never be less than 15 yuan / kg to buy. In this regard, Li Hua said that it is a great benefit to the farmers. "the bad price of coffee beans this year is not just in Yunnan. Many farmers expect the purchase price to be less than 15 yuan / kg." Li Hua said, "although the purchase volume of Hougu is limited, in the industry, ensuring that the purchase price is not less than 15 yuan / kg is also a good thing for farmers." However, in the view of Li Gongqin, secretary general of the Provincial Coffee Industry Association, the strength of Hougu Coffee or any other enterprise is limited, and participants in the Yunnan coffee industry should form a consensus and join forces for the common coffee industry. stabilize the development foundation of Yunnan coffee industry, so that Yunnan coffee beans will no longer be sold cheaply. At the same time, in order to cope with the rise and fall of coffee bean prices, the provincial coffee industry association also called for the establishment of a coffee storage system in Yunnan, by subsidizing warehousing fees and providing discount loans. support coffee enterprises to store coffee at protective prices when the sales price of coffee beans is close to or lower than the planting cost, so as to promote the long-term and healthy development of the coffee industry.