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China Makes Breakthrough In Coffee Exports
China View ^ | February 28, 2009 | Xinhua

Posted on 03/08/2009 6:02:24 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL

(KUNMING) -- China will export coffee directly to the United States in April, according to a deal signed between the ECUM Coffee Group and Yunnan Hogood Co. Ltd..

In a statement Saturday, Hogood said it will export 240 tonnes of coffee beans per month to Atlantic (USA) Inc., a member of the Denmark-based ECUM Coffee Group.

Before this deal, Chinese coffee reached foreign consumers via international coffee suppliers, such as Nescafe and Starbucks.

Jon H. Stefenson, director of marketing at the ECUM U.S. subsidiary, said packages of the company's coffee products will carry marks indicating the plantation origin as Yunnan.

Yunnan Hogood, which is based in Dehong Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, is one of the largest coffee suppliers in China.

It has contracted 30,000 rural households to grow coffee. By the end of 2008, it had 5,333 hectares of contracted land.

Xiong Xiangru, chairman of the board of Hogood, said the company aimed to gradually reduce its dependence on supplying beans to foreign coffee brands. Instead, he wants to focus on promoting the company's own brand of products.

Currently, the world's top five coffee suppliers, including Nescafe, Maxim, Maxwell and Kraft have purchased beans from Yunnan. The province accounts for 98 percent of China's total coffee output, according to Xiong, president of the Yunnan Coffee Association.

Nescafe is the largest buyer of Yunnan coffee. Its purchase in Yunnan reached 8,000 tonnes last year.

Starbucks offered last month to use Yunnan coffee beans in its global procurement system.

"World consumers may have already tasted Yunnan coffee, before they recognize the coffee's plantation origin," said Xiong.

According to figures from the provincial forestry bureau, Yunnan had 23,000 hectares of coffee plantations last year. Its total coffee output was 28,000 tonnes.

Coffee planting only has a decade of history in China because many people prefer tea. However, coffee's popularity is increasing.

Better business has benefited poor farmers in Yunnan.

Zhou Yuetuan, a farmer of the Dai ethnic group, said her family earned more than 20,000 yuan (2,900 U.S. dollars) last year planting coffee.

The per capita income for farmers in the province was 3,102 yuan last year.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; chinesecoffee; coffee; globalism; starbucks; taintedfood
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1 posted on 03/08/2009 6:02:24 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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To: jahp; LilAngel; metmom; EggsAckley; Battle Axe; SweetCaroline; Grizzled Bear; goldfinch; B4Ranch; ..
MADE IN CHINA POTTERY STAMP

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2 posted on 03/08/2009 6:02:43 AM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
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To: JACKRUSSELL

You only need add creamer, the melamine and lead are pre-loaded.


3 posted on 03/08/2009 6:07:00 AM PDT by BipolarBob (When do we call Obama "Dear Leader" and learn the new salute?)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Is there ANYTHING we won’t import from China? I am so sick of seeing “Made in China” or “Product of China” on nearly everything in our local stores.

I do not believe we can live “China-Free”, no matter how hard we try... parts in US made cars, so much furniture, 98% of all electronics sold in the US, Even a startlingly large portion of food in the grocery store (especially canned goods).

I make a conscious effort to not buy Chinese goods. Have even gone out of my way to find non-Chinese products (at a significant cost in $). Yet the Chinese goods continue to flood our markets.


4 posted on 03/08/2009 6:10:34 AM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: JACKRUSSELL
As a home-roaster of my own coffe:

NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!


5 posted on 03/08/2009 6:12:15 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

All Chinese exports will soon be going directly to consumers around the world. There go the genius middle-”persons.” How long will it be, before we see the big default?


6 posted on 03/08/2009 6:12:46 AM PDT by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

And the Starbucks offer is basically a part of their varieties... they have coffees from various parts of the world. As long as they don’t hide the origin, I don’t have a problem. But this is true about most any product - unfortunately, some companies find creative ways to hid the origin - particularly when from China.


7 posted on 03/08/2009 6:12:55 AM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: BipolarBob
You only need add creamer, the melamine and lead are pre-loaded.

Solution - I use US produced (usually from in-state dairies) Half & Half.

8 posted on 03/08/2009 6:14:08 AM PDT by TheBattman (Pray for our country....)
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To: TheBattman

Not all of the stuff that we buy is from China. Much of it comes from other places, like Bangladesh and Mexico.


9 posted on 03/08/2009 6:14:36 AM PDT by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

I’m glad I don’t drink coffee. I am amazed at the people that are so addicted to it.


10 posted on 03/08/2009 6:14:37 AM PDT by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

I too am glad I don’t drink coffee. Just please please please keep the chinese away from Chocolate!!!!


11 posted on 03/08/2009 6:19:38 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Right....

Like they will sell something like an artificial Sago Coffee.

China is a master of fakes and imitations, they spend billions on how to make a near replica of something from basic stuff like bird droppings and sawdust.


12 posted on 03/08/2009 6:24:53 AM PDT by Eye of Unk (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! SA)
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To: DannyTN

Chocolate? Wayyyyy tooo late for that.


13 posted on 03/08/2009 6:25:06 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Sadly for China, melamine floats.

So they are looking for a substitute. /s


14 posted on 03/08/2009 6:26:07 AM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: JACKRUSSELL

For the profit margin I’d have thought the Chicoms would have gone for that coffee bean that has gone through a cat’s digestive process.


15 posted on 03/08/2009 6:27:43 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: raybbr

Enjoying my addiction as I type...


16 posted on 03/08/2009 6:28:28 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: JACKRUSSELL

Why do we need coffee if our e-cigs will go out automatically? One or the other China, come on now.


17 posted on 03/08/2009 6:29:28 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: JACKRUSSELL
I remember W.W.II Oleo as the substitute for butter. It came with a little packet of yellow coloring that you had to mix in to make it look like butter -- it was some kind of white shortening (lard?).

My parents had "coffee" which is described as "Luzianne" coffee. Still available today apparently. It can include the herb chicory. "The dried, roasted, ground roots of this plant, used as an adulterant of or substitute for coffee."

If we're lucky that's a far as the Chi-Com "coffee" will go.

18 posted on 03/08/2009 6:32:57 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Caipirabob
I'm with you on that. I guarantee you I won't be roasting any Chinese coffee beans.

Let Starbuck's keep serving that swill.

19 posted on 03/08/2009 6:40:40 AM PDT by Pablo64 (Political Correctness is a DISEASE. <==> TRUTH is the CURE.)
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To: Pablo64
I was just posting to someone who had asked on where I get my beans. I've been buying from The Captain's Coffee" lately. I used to buy from Sweet Maria's but their shipping has gone off the charts.
20 posted on 03/08/2009 6:44:36 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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