The latest information on coffee in Yunnan: 1500 yuan per ton is quoted, and the income of farmers will increase by 300 to 500 million.

Reporter Yin Lei reported yesterday, The reporter learned from Yunnan Province coffee industry association, By Hougu coffee reference New York futures market quotation influence, Including Nestle, Maxwell and other enterprises have raised the quotation on the basis of last year, The chain reaction caused by this or will bring Yunnan coffee farmers more than 300 - 500 million yuan income.

Companies have long had a practice of subtracting 10-20 cents from the New York coffee futures price when buying Yunnan coffee, a practice that lasted for many years was broken on November 18. On this day, Hougu Coffee, a leading local coffee enterprise, took the lead in making a public offer and promised to quote a purchase price of 16.5 yuan/kg with reference to the price of New York futures, slightly subtracting transportation costs. According to this calculation, the harvest offer per ton of coffee will increase by at least 1500 yuan.

In the following month, Hougu Coffee's weekly public quotations were 16.8 yuan/kg, 16.8 yuan/kg, 17 yuan/kg and 16.5 yuan/kg respectively, all fulfilling the previous commitments. Affected by this, including Nestle, Maxwell, including the public quotation of enterprises are higher than the previous practice. Hu Lu, deputy secretary-general of the provincial coffee industry association, introduced that a week after the public quotation of Hougu Coffee, Nestle will give a quotation for coffee beans that meet its 4c standard, and the price will remain between 15.5-16 yuan/kg, about 1 yuan higher than the practice in previous years. At the same time, Maxwell also gave an offer of 15.8-16 yuan/kg during this period.

"Predictably, raising the offer is a big shock for companies that are purely engaged in coffee trading." In Hu Lu's view, enterprises without deep processing ability will have narrower and narrower living space."In 2009, the provincial coffee industry association was established and quoted publicly in the whole industry. About 80% of coffee trade enterprises fell out in that year. Affected by this round of quotation, the remaining 20% enterprises will still have a batch of enterprises falling out."

However, for Yunnan million farmers, raising the offer is undoubtedly a big good. "In the harvest season of 2015-2016, the coffee output of the whole province will reach about 130,000 tons. According to the current quotation, Yunnan coffee farmers will directly increase their income by more than 200 million yuan. If the impact of price on other links is included, the overall income increase of 300 - 500 million yuan should not be a problem." Hu Lu said.

Source: Kunming Daily Electronic Edition