Red! Red! Over 8,000 Mu of Coffee in Yunxian Enters Harvest

Editor’s note (coffeeyo.com): In Yunxian, Yunnan, more than 8,000 mu of coffee have entered the harvest season. Red cherries laden with fruit herald a bountiful harvest, and the county’s scaled cultivation and extended industry chain are coming into view.

As the season turns, coffee plantations across Yunxian have successively entered their ripening period. Layer upon layer of coffee groves stretch out, bright red cherries dotting the green foliage. Batch after batch of growers have seized the fine weather to head into the hills and pick, officially opening the curtain on a new coffee harvest.

At the Desheng coffee planting base in Aihua Town, ripe cherries hang heavy on the branches. Growers move through the groves with baskets in hand, carefully selecting and picking cherries of a ruddy color and full shape. The freshly picked cherries are rushed to Chixu Coffee Company, where the washing and processing line runs at full speed. After sorting, pulping, fermenting and rinsing, the fruit and pectin are removed, revealing clean parchment beans, which then move into sun-drying and grading — each primary processing step proceeding in good order.

According to Chen Zhixu, general manager of Yunxian Chixu Coffee Estate Co., Ltd., the company currently works with coffee bases across multiple townships in the county, with a cooperative planting area of more than 8,000 mu, lifting over 1,000 surrounding farm households. As the coffee ripens, the processing plant has fully opened cherry procurement and processing, currently handling about 60 tonnes of fresh cherries per day, with cumulative processing expected to reach 5,000 tonnes across the whole season. The company adheres to traditional washed specialty processing, strictly controlling sorting and washing, stabilizing procurement channels and prices, safeguarding bean quality, and giving growers peace of mind to harvest and steady income growth.

Blessed with favorable light, temperature, soil and water at the golden latitude, the coffee industry has become a distinctive wealth-generating sector for Yunxian. Building on its unique natural endowments, the county continues to deepen its small-grain coffee industry, steadily improve the mechanisms linking farmers to agriculture, standardize the fresh-cherry primary processing workflow, strive to raise bean quality, and polish the brand of Yunxian small-grain coffee.

Each plump red cherry carries a grower’s hopes for the whole year. As the harvest continues, cherries across the hills will undergo fine processing and be transformed into quality coffee raw material, turning ecological resource strengths into industrial and income advantages, adding a rich, lasting coffee aroma to the county’s rural revitalization. (Yang Rui, Liu Xiaofeng)

Source: Yunxian Media Convergence Center

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