At a Glance (China Coffee Network): Shuangjiang County’s coffee planting area reaches 42,500 mu, with this season’s fresh cherry output expected at 12,500 tonnes; five companies signed agreements with 20 villages and 2,566 households, achieving full order-backed purchasing coverage that reassures farmers of steady income gains.
Currently, the coffee planting area in Shuangjiang Lahu, Wa, Blang and Dai Autonomous County, Lincang City, reaches 42,500 mu. This season (2026–2027), the picking area is expected to reach 19,500 mu, with fresh cherry output expected at 12,500 tonnes and an average yield of 642 kg per mu. A total of five coffee companies in the county have signed purchase agreements with 20 villages across 6 townships and 2,566 households; the signed area covers 100% of the county’s fruiting zones, achieving full order-backed purchasing coverage that gives farmers a reassuring “pill” for steady income gains.
It is now the picking period as coffee ripens in succession. Thanks to ample rainfall this year and diligent daily care by farmers, coffee planting bases across Shuangjiang have begun harvesting fresh cherries, with busy farmers visible throughout the hills—a lively scene of abundance.
In Nanjing Group of Nanjing Village, Mengmeng Town, contiguous coffee trees are thriving, red cherries hanging thick on the branches. As a low-altitude coffee planting area, Nanjing Group grows over 3,000 mu of coffee. In 2024, guided by local authorities, the area adopted a model of intercropping coffee with macadamia nuts, advancing contiguous standardized planting; the fruiting area now exceeds 1,000 mu, and as planting zones enter peak production, the coffee industry is becoming a key pillar of stable local income growth.
“The government promoted coffee planting in 2024; this is the second year. The rain was good this year and the fruit set is high. My family intercrops 16 mu; we’ve only just started picking and already earned 1,400 yuan, and this year’s picking income alone is expected to exceed 10,000 yuan,” said Shi Jianghua, a Nanjing Group coffee grower, calculating this year’s income gains as she looked at the cherries on the branches.
At the fresh cherry collection point, farmers delivering cherries were busy weighing and asking prices—a bustling scene. It is reported the day’s purchase price was 7 yuan per kg, up from before. By the end of October, three companies in the county had begun purchasing, taking in over 100 tonnes of fresh cherries, while the rest are preparing purchasing and processing work. As fruiting areas expand year by year, improved care techniques and smooth sales channels have become farmers’ top concerns.
Li Jiangqing, head of Nanjing Group, explained that this year the locality plans to organize farmers in batches to visit and study elsewhere, importing advanced care experience and gauging market demand, while actively courting investment to bring coffee processing enterprises in—stabilizing fresh cherry prices and creating local nearby employment. “We want to take farmers out to see more, learn techniques and broaden horizons, and we hope leading enterprises come in to build the coffee industry together with everyone, so people’s lives get better and better,” Li said.
It is understood that in recent years Shuangjiang has continuously consolidated the foundation of its coffee industry. It now has five coffee processing enterprises and eight professional cooperatives, with five primary-processing lines and one deep-processing line built; primary processing capacity reaches 15,000 tonnes and deep-processing capacity 5,000 tonnes, with processing capacity rising steadily.
“Our village began promoting coffee planting in 2024; the planted area now exceeds 4,600 mu, with some plots bearing fruit for the first time this year, yielding about 30 tonnes and 300,000 yuan in output value,” said Li Hongyun, deputy secretary of the Nanjing Village Party Branch, adding that the village will next proceed from reality, continue leading the people to strengthen the coffee industry, and solidify the foundation of rural revitalization through industrial revitalization.
Yunnan Net reporter Li Chunlin; correspondents Chen Zhiqiang, Li Siyu
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