Guangdong produces coffee. Would you like to try it?

Feng Qihuan is confident that coffee will get rich.

The richer Guangdong comes, the richer it is

Yun'an Coffee

Farmers in Yunan County, Yunfu City have successfully planted coffee beans and are expected to be mass produced and put on the market the year after next.

(Wen / photo) Yu Kangyong correspondents Liang Jiewen and Liu Shuo

Kopi Luwak, amber coffee, latte, cappuccino. This kind of drink, which originated in Africa, is favored by more and more Chinese people. With the help of this year's World Cup, Brazilian coffee has become popular again, but have you ever tasted coffee made locally in Guangdong?

Don't worry, farmers in Zhenan Town, Yunan County have successfully planted coffee fruits on a large scale. Coffee beans here are expected to go on sale in large quantities in 2016, and Cantonese people will be able to drink locally produced delicious coffee. For Yunfu farmers, maybe this is another way for the planting industry to get rich.

One mu of land can produce 2 to 2.5 tons of fresh coffee and fruit.

Yesterday, the sun was so hot that the reporter came to the hillside near Shan Tsai Tou Village of Minqiang Village in Zhenan. Peanuts, corn and soybeans interplanted with coffee were growing just right, and rows of coffee bean saplings with a height of 30 to 40 centimeters were thriving in the sun.

"the row spacing of coffee bean seedlings is 1.8 to 2 meters, and the plant spacing is 1.3 to 1.5 meters. About 250 plants can be planted on one mu of land, and the white flowers are very beautiful in spring. Coffee trees are usually planted for three years and can hang fruit. A coffee tree can survive for 30 to 40 years. In the two to three years before the seedlings are fully grown, we can interplant some other crops and make full use of the precious mountain land resources. " Coffee bean trial technical expert, Zhen'an town Katim coffee professional cooperative manager Feng Qihuan introduced to the reporter.

In another 3-year-old coffee bean planting area, the well-growing seedlings have luxuriant branches and leaves, which are full of dark green. Feng Qihuan broke open the coffee bean tree and let the reporter see rows of attractive coffee fruits, which are already as big as peanuts. Each branch has more than 10 nodes, and each node has one to three to eight fruits.

"when ripe, these fruits change from green to red, the size of a cherry, called a coffee cherry, or a fresh coffee fruit, with a core called coffee beans, the size of peanuts, and divided into two halves. Coffee beans are graded, shelled, fermented, washed, soaked, dried, roasted and cooked and ground into powder, which can be brewed to drink.

According to reports, during the high-yield period, one mu of Yun'an coffee land can produce 2 to 2.5 tons of fresh coffee fruit. according to the guaranteed purchase price signed with Kadim Coffee planting Professional Cooperative in Yun'an County, a kilogram of coffee fruit is at least 10 yuan. the output value of one mu of coffee fruit should be about 20,000 yuan, and the market prospect is very good. " Feng Qihuan said.

It is understood that in Yunnan Province, which accounts for more than 99 percent of China's coffee acreage and output, the purchase price of coffee fruits has risen from about 13 yuan per kilogram to about 25 yuan per kilogram this year. However, the cultivation of coffee beans in Guangdong is still a blank area, and the market potential is great.

What's the taste of Cantonese coffee?

You can drink it without sugar with your own creamy flavor.

The villagers of Minqiang Village in Zhenan Town said that the tasters reported that the coffee produced here has a creamy flavor, is not bitter, and can be drunk without sugar, probably because the light conditions here are suitable.

Coffee is expected to become the "leading product" of Yunan.

Since 2006, farmers in Zhenan Town, Yunan County have begun to experiment with coffee cultivation here. After more than 7 years of trial planting, it is found that coffee can be grown in some villages in Zhen'an Town, Baishi Town and Shicheng Town, as well as in a few areas near Yunfu. Over the years, farmers have completed the work of raising seedlings, planting, processing and product evaluation, and began planting on a large scale last year.

According to the planting experience of the villagers, coffee trees have strong adaptability and easy control of diseases and insect pests, but the requirements for light and heat are relatively high, and the mountains of Minqiang Village meet these conditions very well. But coffee trees can not often be exposed to the sun, so it is generally necessary to plant tall sunshade trees nearby. In addition to planting coffee trees in the mountains, they can also be planted in front and behind houses to develop the "courtyard economy."

Villagers in Zhenan Town believe that coffee cultivation is expected to become the "leading product" of Yunan agriculture in the future.

This year is expected.

Expand the seed to 500 mu

At present, the coffee bean planting area of Minqiang Village in Zhenan Town has reached 213 mu, together with several surrounding villages, has exceeded 300 mu, and is even expected to exceed 500 mu this year.

Villagers predict that by November 2016, when the planting area of coffee beans is further expanded to 2,000 to 3,000 mu, there will be a large yield of commercial coffee beans to meet the market demand.