{"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 &#8211; China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_bw_attachement_jpg_site1_20080121_0013729e4a9d08fe1e311b.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_bw_attachement_jpg_site1_20080121_0013729e4a9d08fe1e311b.jpg','popup','width=560,height=457,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_bw_attachement_jpg_site1_20080121_0013729e4a9d08fe1e311b-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"122\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Bw Attachement Jpg Site1 20080121 0013729E4A9D08Fe1E311B\" \/><\/a>From China Daily:<span style=\"font-size:0pt;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nChen Jiahua, a farmer in Nanping town of<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pu%27er_City\"> Pu&#8217;er<\/a> City in Southwest China&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yunnan\">Yunnan<\/a> province, drinks tea, not coffee &#8211; but coffee is far more important to him. It is his livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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. 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