These days, walking into the planting base of the Yunding Zhuchao (Cloud-top Nest) Coffee Estate in Shuangjiang Lahu–Va–Blang–Dai Autonomous County, strings of unripe coffee cherries hang thickly from the branches like green gems. Before the morning mist has cleared, workers have already entered the estate carrying their tools.
Technician Li Jinyu stands in front of a coffee tree, supporting a branch with her left hand while the scissors in her right snaps — an upright shoot falls to the ground. She parts the leaves, studies the spacing of the fruit clusters, and casually wipes away excess buds: “The fruit won’t grow big if it’s too dense; we have to make room for it.”
Li Jinyu is a villager from Chenjiazhai Village, Shahe Town, where the estate is located. Since the estate was built in 2021, she has worked there, growing from an ordinary worker into a technician. After learning the skills, her own family planted 10 mu of coffee, earning 30,000 yuan a year from coffee.
“Scientific management is the key to ensuring coffee quality,” said Wang Fufan, head of the tropical crops station at the Shuangjiang Agriculture and Rural Bureau. Currently the coffee cherries have entered the late swelling to early ripening stage, and the core goal of management has shifted from “promoting growth” to “protecting quality, preventing premature aging and preparing for overwintering.” The county has formed a professional agro-technical guidance team that goes deep into coffee planting bases in each township, guiding growers in precise fertilization, pest and disease control, shaping and pruning, and preparation of cold-protection materials, to ensure good quality and a bumper harvest.
Shuangjiang adopts and promotes a three-dimensional intercropping model of “nuts + coffee, tea + coffee, rubber + coffee,” steadily expanding the coffee planting area. By the end of 2025, the county’s coffee planting area reached 31,000 mu, of which 18,000 mu are bearing fruit, covering 35 villages (communities) in 6 townships and involving 2,800 coffee-growing households. In the 2025–2026 season, fresh coffee fruit output was 9,910 tonnes with agricultural output value of 84 million yuan, and 1,400 tonnes of green beans; the industry’s comprehensive output value exceeded 180 million yuan, with average household annual income reaching 30,000 yuan. The main varieties promoted include high-quality coffees such as “Sarchimor 402,” “Catimor T8667,” “Colombia” and the “Yunka” series.
On the processing side, the county has cultivated 5 coffee processing enterprises and 4 coffee professional cooperatives, built 5 primary-processing lines with a primary-processing capacity of 15,000 tonnes, and 1 fine-processing line with a capacity of 5,000 tonnes. Some deep-processing products are commissioned to Baoshan and Pu’er; for now, the main sales are still commodity green beans.
Brand building is advancing in tandem. In April 2025, Shuangjiang County established a coffee industry association to further standardize industry development and pool development synergy. So far, six brands have been built — Yunding Zhuchao, Mengtena, Beihui Manor, Xueli Youcheng, Laowa Coffee and Jiangzuo Coffee — 13,000 mu of organic bases have been certified, 3 organic products produced, and “Shuangjiang Coffee” has been rated a national famous, special, premium and new agricultural product. Products are sold online and offline to external provinces and cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu, as well as some cities within the province such as Baoshan and Pu’er, and market recognition keeps rising.
From branch management to brand marketing, Shuangjiang coffee is now using scientific management to consolidate its quality foundation, turning “green gems” into “golden beans” that enrich the people, injecting a fragrant drive into rural revitalization.
(Correspondent: Yan Xingyong; Reporter: Wang Chaoyu; Editor: Deng Hongmei; Reviewer: Yang Wei)
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