Kaiyuan: 60,000 Coffee Seedlings Shipped Out, Consolidating Seedling-Base Development

Brief (coffeeyo.com): Kaiyuan City in Yunnan has shipped its first batch of 60,000 locally bred coffee seedlings to Lvchun County, launching the prefecture’s first scaled seedling-supply chain and laying the groundwork for cross-regional coffee development.

Recently, the first batch of 60,000 high-quality seedlings from the coffee seedling nursery base in Kaiyuan City, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture, was successfully shipped to Lvchun County, marking the first time a scaled local coffee seedling base has supplied seedlings in bulk to external buyers. This fills a long-standing gap in the local scaled coffee seedling industry and lays a solid seedling foundation for the Honghe prefecture’s coffee industry to improve quality and efficiency from the source and achieve cross-regional coordinated development.

Inside the greenhouse of the standardized local coffee seedling base in Kaiyuan City, located in the Kaiyuan National Modern Agriculture Industrial Park, workers carefully lift the coffee seedlings from the beds and package them, then transport them in an orderly manner by transfer carts to the loading point. “About 60,000 coffee seedlings are planned for the first shipment, and the remaining seedlings will be delivered in subsequent periods,” explained Shi Jinming, head of the seedling base of Kaiyuan Migui Coffee Co., Ltd. The first batch uses two varieties—Sarchimor 402 and T8667—which possess seven notable rust-resistance traits under Yunnan’s planting conditions, reducing the risk of disease and pests at the seedling stage.

Kaiyuan is more than 170 km from the Hekou first-class port of China. The standardized local coffee seedling base sits at the optimal altitude range of 1,200 to 1,800 meters, meeting the requirements of coffee’s high-altitude and subtropical-climate growth, and enjoys locational radiation conditions and resource advantages. Covering more than 3,800 square meters, the base cultivates six varieties—T8667, Sarchimor 402, Robusta, YunkA No.1, Geisha, and others—with a total of 160,000 high-quality coffee seedlings. The greenhouse adopts meticulous manual management and a 24/7 real-time monitoring system to effectively prevent and control anthracnose and pests in the seedling plants, enabling refined treatment for the next stage of nursery work.

This bulk external sale of locally bred coffee seedlings ends Kaiyuan’s history of having no scaled coffee seedling industry and builds a new industrial chain of “local nursery, prefecture-wide supply.” The local standardized seedling base has carried out full-cycle growth data recording, comparison, and in-depth analysis of this batch of seedlings, accumulating a localized nursery database adapted to the local climate and soil. This lays a solid data foundation for the subsequent introduction and trial planting of superior coffee varieties and the building of a full-process standardized planting system, providing stable, high-quality seedling support for the upgrading of coffee quality in Kaiyuan and even across the prefecture, as well as for cross-regional coordinated development, right from the source of the industry.

In the future, Kaiyuan will continue to optimize nursery technology, expand the production capacity of high-quality seedlings, and engage farmers to drive rural development, pushing the Kaiyuan coffee industry from “planting it” to “planting it well,” supporting rural revitalization, and truly turning the small coffee bean into a “golden key” that helps the people get rich and drives regional development.

Source: Yunnan Net (Reporter: Rao Yong; Correspondents: He Xiao, Li Xueqiong; Editor: Deng Ruidan).

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