August 17, 2025 05:38 Source: People's Daily Online
In 2024, Yunnan's coffee and fresh cut flower exports will rank among the top in the country, and its agricultural product export scale will be in a leading position in the western region. About 70% of Yunnan's vegetable products are sold annually to more than 150 large and medium-sized cities and more than 40 countries and regions in China.
Plateau characteristic agriculture is a distinctive industry in Yunnan. In March of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during his inspection in Yunnan: "There are many teas in Yunnan's local area. Back then, it was the ancient Tea Horse Road, with a long history of traditional Chinese medicine, delicious small grain coffee, and a major rubber producing area. There are tropical and subtropical fruits and nuts… These specialties are your trump cards, and we must continue to play them well
Cloud flowers compete for beauty, cloud coffee is fragrant, cloud tea is fragrant, cloud vegetables are fresh, cloud fruits are sweet, cloud fungi are rich, and cloud medicine is authentic. Yunnan has tailored its high-altitude characteristic agriculture to local conditions, and has made efforts from the seed industry, planting, and market ends. A batch of Yunnan produced high-altitude characteristic agricultural products, represented by the "Seven Colored Cloud Products", are sold well both at home and abroad.
Strengthening the Seed Industry 'Chip'——
Yunnan coffee still represents China, "praised by General Secretary Xi Jinping. Yunnan coffee ranks among the top in terms of planting area and output in the country.
In Yeyatang Coffee Plantation, Simao District, Pu'er City, there is a continuous stream of merchants. With the improvement of quality, more and more out of town merchants are coming to search for beans, "said the estate manager Shi Hanyu.
In recent years, Yunnan has introduced relevant policies to support the transformation of Yunnan coffee towards boutique and deep processing. High quality varieties continue to be updated and upgraded, and the premium rate of Yunnan coffee has increased from 8% in 2021 to 31.6% today.
This is Dere 132, this is Dere 3… "said Zhou Hua, a researcher at Dehong Tropical Agricultural Science Research Institute in Yunnan Province." We have shortened the breeding time from 30 years to 10 years, and 6 varieties have been approved by relevant national departments
The unique natural endowment has created the advantage of Yunnan Plateau's characteristic agricultural product resources. Yunnan insists on transforming its resource advantages into development advantages and cultivating more agricultural products with independent intellectual property rights. Zhang Fang, Deputy Director of the Plateau Characteristic Agriculture Development Department of Yunnan Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, introduced that Yunnan has built 36 provincial-level seed industry bases and made important breakthroughs in key breeding technologies for crops such as flowers, coffee, and vegetables.
Planting more 'smart'——
Sensors monitor the soil environment 24 hours a day, and integrated water and fertilizer facilities accurately deliver nutrients to vegetable roots. Xia Yu, the person in charge of the modern agriculture green and efficient planting demonstration base in Huanglong Community, Tonghai County, Yuxi City, is debugging the soil sensor system.
Click 'green' to turn into gold. At the modern tea garden demonstration base in Bangmu Village, Shahe Township, Shuangjiang Lahu, Va, Blang, Dai Autonomous County, Lincang City, researchers from the "Three Tea Coordination" Research Institute guided tea farmers to increase the germination of new shoots in tea gardens by 11.1% and increase comprehensive income by 400 yuan per mu through measures such as low-density retention, green pest control, and fertilizer and drug control.
Empowered by technology, various regions in Yunnan are developing agricultural new quality productivity according to local conditions. Luliang County has established a risk assessment and monitoring system for vegetable pesticides, as well as a traceability system for their origin. The quality and safety testing rate for agricultural products has reached 100%; The flower production base in Kaiyuan City has an efficient water-saving irrigation coverage rate of 100%; Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture establishes a standardized process for planting Sanqi and clarifies quality standards
Growth rate of circulation quality improvement——
Cloud Flower "Cloud" is sold on the Dounan Flower Electronic Trading Center in Chenggong District, Kunming City, and a transaction can be completed every 4 seconds.
On the large screen of Kunming Huayibao Technology Co., Ltd., purchase heat maps for real-time updates. The platform innovatively explores the online remote matching and trading mode of fresh cut flowers, directly connecting production and demand. Big data analysis of key sales information such as category and color proportion has brought convenience to flower farmers and flower merchants, "said Zhao Yongneng, the company's leader.
How many days does it take for a blueberry to enter a supermarket in Shanghai from its origin in Mengzi, Yunnan? After picking, it will be sent to the cold storage for pre cooling, and then transported through the cold chain. It will take at least two days to arrive in Shanghai, "said Chen Canling, who is engaged in blueberry sales.
At present, Yunnan has built more than 7300 cold storage facilities with a storage capacity of nearly 7.4 million cubic meters, and has basically established a regional and comprehensive cold chain logistics facility cluster in the main production areas of fresh agricultural products.
Supporting the export of "Yunpin" products from Yunnan, Yunnan's agricultural departments are promoting the development of brand clusters, and jointly organizing at least 6 production and sales docking activities with the commerce department every year. By 2024, the online retail sales of agricultural products in Yunnan Province will reach 48.79 billion yuan; Kunming Customs and Transportation Department establish a coordination mechanism for the "green channel" of agricultural product exports, achieving "one inspection, two mutual recognition" Kunming Railway Bureau of China Railway has launched the China Laos Railway "Lancang Mekong Express Line" to help agricultural products export to Southeast Asian countries efficiently.
Remembering General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, we must tap into the resources of 'soil', amplify the advantages of 'specialties', improve the efficiency of' production ', and enable more' cloud products' to go national and global, "said Wang Ning, Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee.
People's Daily (01 edition, August 17, 2025)
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