Villagers are burning coffee. Iwa sanctuary
In recent years, the state of mengliang, pummi, yunnan province, has been promoting the natural resources and location advantages of the country, promoting the cultivation of coffee on a large scale, training in the techniques of coffee culinary farming, and making efforts to build high-quality coffee, boosting industrial efficiency and effectively increasing the economic income of the local population。
At the end of the 2022-2023 production season coffee fruit harvest in menglán district, yeqing, the head of the cooperative, is checking coffee beans awaiting delivery in a warehouse at a professional coffee farmer's cooperative in hongan village, nawon town, to ensure that quality coffee beans are available to clients。
According to yeqing, this year their cooperative processed about 150 tons of coffee beans, 70 per cent of which are refined coffee, which has been almost booked and is very popular on the market。
The cooperative, which has an area of 1,500 acres of coffee cultivation, has led to the development of the coffee industry by more than 298 farmers in the surrounding area, in accordance with the “enterprise + base + farmer” model。
In recent years, with the support of the local party committee government policy, cooperatives have been working to upgrade coffee parks, improve coffee varieties and, since 2017, continue to follow the fine coffee route, effectively achieving business efficiency and increasing crop yields. During the production season of 2022, the cooperative earned a maximum income of 100,000。
“we have 11 acres of coffee land, and this year most of it is refined coffee beans, at a better price of $5. 5 per kilogram, with more than 70,000 earnings this year.” the village of hongan, namong township, monliang, says qaran iwapin。
On the other side, at a fine coffee estate in rich rock town, workers put fresh coffee fruits directly into a barrel, waiting for fermentation for 20 days before taking them out for sun. The head of the cooperative, yip ping, introduced the coffee fruit into the bucket for fermentation, which originated from the traditional wine-making methods of the wa people. The fermented coffee tastes like fruit, is thicker, smells better, tastes better and is popular in the market. Currently, more than 60 per cent of the cooperative's coffeefruit is fermented using this method。
Coffee is one of the main pillars of the menglén district, which currently has an area of 1,074 million acres of coffee grown, with an area of 957 million acres in production, 122 coffee enterprises and over 61,000 people in the county. Thanks to the coffee industry, the local population has grown and become rich, and production life has changed dramatically。
“the main source of our economy is coffee, which has grown more than 20 acres, and since it was grown, the day has improved considerably, and life has improved considerably.” the village of rafou, in the town of zuma, menglán, said qain。
In recent years, mengong county has taken advantage of the coffee industry as a highland specialty, actively scaling up cultivation, strengthening management, upgrading processing techniques, creating brand names, continuously promoting the transformation and upgrading of the coffee industry and improving efficiency, in line with cooperative models such as enterprise + base + farmer. Radiation has led to steady growth of the coffee industry throughout the county。
At the same time, there has been a sustained increase in the promotion of “pumma meng” and efforts have been made to build quality coffee, which has further improved the quality of coffee, and has significantly improved the branding of coffee in mongong county. It is known that coffee commodity beans production in mengren county is expected to exceed 10,000 tons during the 2022-2023 season, with a yield rate of over 50 per cent. As a next step, meng lian county will continue to follow the line of excellence and accelerate the development of varieties of excellence, quality upgrading, branding, standardized production and the integration of 123 products, in an effort to make meng lian the “first county of chinese fine coffee”. Iwa sankara, contributed by the menglian county media center
(according to: kim seung-yu, chu hongxia)
