The "Golden seed" on the Tropic of Cancer

The 50 mu coffee forest contracted by Meng Yan has just entered the harvest period, Yunnan coffee to the world will bring him real benefits.

The proposal of the CPC Central Committee on the formulation of the 12th five-year Plan for National Economic and Social Development released a few days ago clearly stated that "support the development of industries with advantageous characteristics" and proposed to "improve the industrial system of modern agriculture." develop high-yield, high-quality, high-efficiency, ecological and safe agriculture.

In the view of Xiong Xiangjin, president of Yunnan Coffee Industry Association and chairman of Hougu Coffee Co., Ltd., this is undoubtedly another "horn" for the development of Yunnan coffee industry.

Meng Yan calculated an account for the reporter: now the places where coffee is grown used to be barren slopes and aging rubber plantations and tea plantations. After more than three years of cultivation, the coffee forest can harvest 1 to 1.5 tons of coffee beans per mu every year.

Coffee is one of the most traded commodities in the world. The global coffee market reaches 1.5 trillion US dollars every year. Instant coffee powder alone consumes more than 700000 tons. Its market potential can not be underestimated.

Yunnan, like famous coffee-producing countries such as Colombia and Jamaica, is located in the "coffee growing golden belt" between the Tropic of Cancer. The natural conditions of low latitude, high altitude and large temperature difference between day and night make Yunnan small-grain coffee can compete with the world's top blue mountain coffee.

In the whole province of Yunnan, as of September this year, the coffee planting area was nearly 500000 mu, accounting for about 98.5% of the national coffee planting area, with an average annual output of 60, 000 to 80, 000 tons.

"Coffee cultivation and other biological characteristic industries have remarkable ecological and economic benefits, and have become key industries to promote the economic development of ethnic border areas." Zhao Jin, secretary of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, said.

The turbulence in the global market in the 1990s and the arbitrary price reduction by international traders made Yunnan coffee, which has no brand, no market and no independent deep processing ability, suffer a lot. Xiong Xiangjin told reporters that learning from the bitter experience, Hougu Coffee has now built a 3,000-ton instant coffee production line, and its raw beans and coffee powder products are exported to 23 countries and regions, with an output value of nearly 100 million US dollars last year.

It is understood that in order to promote the development of the coffee industry, the Yunnan provincial government plans to invest 3 billion yuan to increase the output of coffee beans from the current 38000 tons to 200000 tons by 2020, and the scale of coffee cultivation from the existing 26700 hectares to 100000 hectares.