{"id":16690,"date":"2008-01-22T20:25:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/22\/coffee-buzz-china-daily\/"},"modified":"2008-01-22T20:25:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T03:25:19","slug":"coffee-buzz-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2008\/01\/coffee-buzz-china-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee Buzz – China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n<\/a>From China Daily:<\/p>\n <\/span>\n<\/p>\n \nChen Jiahua, a farmer in Nanping town of Pu’er<\/a> City in Southwest China’s Yunnan<\/a> province, drinks tea, not coffee – but coffee is far more important to him. It is his livelihood.<\/p>\n It has become a new way of life for him and his family: The red coffee berries flourishing on his 20-mu (1.3 hectare) parcel of land, the novel agricultural techniques and available hi-tech that allows him to check coffee prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange using his cellphone.<\/p>\n His coffee field up in the hills not far from his home will have a good harvest this year. The decision he made 17 years ago to become a coffee grower now brings him some 80,000 yuan in profit each year, a good income for a farmer in this underdeveloped mountainous region. [Full Text<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \n[Image: Nestle’s agricultural service chief in Yunnan Wouter De Smet illustrates coffee growing to Chinese students, via chinadaily.com.cn]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From China Daily: Chen Jiahua, a farmer in Nanping town of Pu’er City in Southwest China’s Yunnan province, drinks tea, not coffee – but coffee is far more important to him. It is his livelihood. It has become a new way of life for him and his family: The red coffee berries flourishing on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[328,6227,110],"class_list":["post-16690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-agriculture","tag-nestle","tag-yunnan","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n