Introduction of Seedling raising in Yunnan producing area of Chinese Coffee Plantation

Introduction of Seedling raising in Yunnan producing area of Chinese Coffee Plantation

Liu Jiahua's home is located in Nanping Town, Simao District, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, a village in the semi-mountainous area. He says that now that he has just entered the picking season, "70 to 80 percent of the coffee beans will be ripe in half a month, and workers will have to pick them at that time," says Liu Jiahua. Looking at this piece of coffee forest that has entered the picking period, Liu Jiahua is most worried that the price of coffee beans is the same as that of tea, repeating the scene of price collapse.

Recently, after rising in 2010 and 2011, the futures price of coffee beans on the New York Mercantile Exchange has plummeted from its highest point, falling nearly 40%. The price of Yunnan coffee, which has been directly referring to the New York futures market, has also plummeted, plummeting from a high of more than 40 yuan in 2011 to the current 12 yuan.

Ma Chi, director of the Tropical crops planting Department of the Yunnan Provincial Agricultural Department, told the Economic Observer that although the current market price of coffee beans is at a low ebb, approaching the cost price of brown farmers, there is still pressure for prices to fall further.

According to the relevant data of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture, as of 2012, the planting area of coffee in Yunnan has reached 1.38 million mu, with an annual output of more than 80,000 tons of coffee beans, and the planting area and output of coffee have accounted for 99% of the country's total. It has become the largest coffee planting and production and export base in China. Most of these coffee trees have been planted in recent years, and the momentum of rapid expansion continues.

The spread of the disease continues, and unfortunately, this is only one of the many crises facing coffee crops in the context of global warming. Benoit Bertrand (Benoit Bertrand), a geneticist and coffee breeding expert at the French Centre for Agricultural Development and Research (CIRAD) in the Turialva Cafe, told the audience: "most of the coffee varieties we grow today are not resistant to diseases and insect pests, nor to rising temperatures and other environmental threats caused by climate change. "

Once the coffee crop fails, the livelihood of local growers will not be sustainable. They will have to cut down coffee trees, plant other crops, and even sell their land to developers, followed by unemployment and environmental damage.