The high altitudes and subtropical climate of Yunnan, which has the largest coffee plantation area in China, are ideal for growing high-quality beans.

云南是中国咖啡种植面积最大的地区，海拔高，气候亚热带，是种植优质咖啡豆的理想之地。

Jin Tao, a 42-year-old coffee grower in Menglian, a county in Yunnan, said he renovated and upgraded his coffee plantation in 2022, and planted some new varieties of beans.

云南孟连县42岁的咖啡种植者金涛说，他在2022年对咖啡种植园进行了翻新和升级，并种植了一些新品种的咖啡豆。

Besides his coffee plantation, 345 other coffee growers have joined his cooperative.

除了他的咖啡种植园，还有345名其他咖啡种植者加入了他的合作社。

To cater to local tastes, in 2013, Driscoll's established its first domestic plantation base in Honghe in Yunnan province, becoming the first multinational corporation to carry out local cultivation work in China.

为了迎合当地人的口味，2013年，Driscoll’s在云南红河建立了第一个国内种植基地，成为第一家在中国开展本土种植工作的跨国公司。

Apart from the berry plantation base, it has built a berry cultivation center in Yunnan.

除浆果种植基地外，还在云南建立了一个浆果种植中心。

Huang Yue, associate professor of the College of Food Science & Nutritional Engineering of China Agricultural University, said: "Localized plantation work helps enterprises lower logistics costs.

中国农业大学食品科学与营养工程学院副教授黄跃表示：“本地化种植有助于企业降低物流成本。

Also, localized plantation activity supports local farmers and serves as public welfare, which shows enterprises' corporate social responsibility and enhances their brand image.

此外，本地化种植活动支持当地农民并作为公益，体现了企业的社会责任，提升了企业的品牌形象。

He cited examples of deeper understanding of plantation and proteins as crucial to elevating added-value of agricultural products for good.

Cai Qingkai, who owns a coffee plantation in Yunnan province in Southwest China, found he had no workers for the upcoming harvest season early this year.

Guizhou stands as China's largest tea plantation area, and it has a long tea planting history.

Compared with regular irrigation and plantation, the cotton sprouted five days earlier, according to Yang.

The water-saving demonstration project will expand the plantation area, with more local technical personnel to be trained.

This helps save 50 percent of water and 30 percent of fertilizers and increase crop yields by 50 percent compared with the traditional plantation, according to the company.

The tea produced in Guizhou, China's largest tea plantation area with a long tea planting history, will be transported to Chongqing, and then to Europe by railways, or it will be transported to the ports of East China, before being exported globally.

Finlays also provides tea plantation training, such as integrated pest management without applying pesticides, yield and cost management, and the use of smart mobile technologies for local farmers.

Evergrande Group, for instance, has invested 5.7 billion yuan to grow plantation and grazing businesses in Bijie city in Southwest China's Guizhou province, where the climate is suitable for growing certain vegetables and fruit.

"The difficulty was how to transform the land with a poor soil structure and low infiltration capacity into fields suitable for crops plantation,"said Wang.

The agricultural park in Cixi, with an area of 2,600 hectares, is engaged in a variety of industries, including plantation, food development and processing, farm and stockbreeding machinery, tourism, e-commerce and industrial training.

An oil palm plantation operated by the Chinese Julong Group in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province has brought more income to workers.

Most of the residents around the plantation in Sintang district work part time to harvest oil palm fruit.

The rotating harvest in each of the plantation blocks allows them to earn extra money to supplement what they earn from their own farmland.

They were eager to make more money by harvesting the oil palm fruit," said Sugianto, chief of Sungai Maram village near the oil palm plantation in Sintang.

Besides the farmers, the plantation helps land owners who plant the oil palm trees in a partnership arrangement that includes attractive offers for their oil palm fruit, he said.

"Basically we have no unemployed people because the plantation will operate here as long as they are willing to work," he added.

A local couple employed by the plantation said they could save up to 2 million rupiah (about $175) per month compared with almost nothing at their previous workplace in Java.

We worked around the clock to monitor leaves on a tobacco plantation in East Java province," said Tori, whose wife stood at his side at the Julong Group's plantation.

Julong Group's oil palm plantation in Sintang has been taking over from a domestic company since 2014.

The plantation has recruited nearly 10,000 locals, including employees and part-time workers.

What he has done is to "make it better"－by replacing all types of powder with real ingredients, milk and cheese on top and brewed tea leaves, supplied by a tea plantation owned by Heytea.

The patented technology has been piloted on wind farms in Shandong, Shanxi and Hebei provinces and is expected to help upgrade traditional industries in China's bamboo plantation centers including Jiangxi and Sichuan provinces, as well as aid in poverty relief, Wen said.

Located in the global golden growth zone of Arabica coffee beans, Pu'er has 52,600 hectares of coffee plantation areas and an annual trading volume of 100,000 tons of coffee, accounting for over 80 percent of China's total.

Starbucks built the company's first coffee bean plantation support center in Asia in Pu'er in 2012.

Alan Tong, chief of the center, said over the past six years, the center has helped local farmers classify coffee bean varieties based on quality, and improve the plantation technique while controlling the cost.

By the end of 2017, there were 1,678 Yunnan coffee suppliers that passed their CAFÉ Practice test, covering plantation areas of more than 16,000 hectares.

Coffee chain store operator continues with biz upgrading and expansion into lower-tier citiesStrong growth in China has continued to boost Starbucks Corp's financial results, reflecting the significance of the Chinese market where the world's largest coffee chain store operator has invested in upgrading stores, local plantation and expansion into lower-tier cities.

He was born in a sugar cane plantation in North western parts of Kenya but plans to invest in a furniture workshop in Nairobi or other big towns once he completes the apprenticeship program.

Hainan State Farms Investment Holding Group Co Ltd, owner of China's largest natural rubber plantation base, is accelerating its pace of globalization through international acquisitions, according to Li Dongming, a senior official with the company.

Tourists pose in a lavender plantation at Huocheng county, based in the Ili Kazakh autonomous prefecture, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, on June 17, 2017.

The project in Guizhou aims to scale up sustainable tea plantation in the province to 6,667 hectares by 2020.

After completing a tree plantation or attending a project, they will be awarded a digital certificate.

During more than six years of participation, Guan has received 68 certificates — 15 tree plantation certificates, 13 reserve protection certificates, 28 ocean protection certificates, an old tree protection certificate and 11 for other projects for social good.

With sufficient tropical sunshine and high temperatures throughout the year, about 200,000 sweet pineapples are harvested every day at the plantation of PT Great Giant Pineapple (GGP), a large private-label manufacturer of canned pineapples.

"We divided the plantation, covering over 30,000 hectares of land, into several zones, and (we) harvest all the pineapples in each zone at the same time," said Murdi Suprayitno, a production planning worker of plantation group one.

Based on the tea plantation, more will be done to strengthen the brand power of Dancong, and extend Dancong's influence to nurture other brands of tourism and local cuisine, said Cai Shufeng, Party chief of Fenghuang Town.

Yuanling county, where the tea was produced, has a long history of tea plantation.

We can buy whatever we want, whenever we want in the supermarket," said Liu Lihua, deputy director of the ministry's plantation management department.

With Shangang's help, Gaofeng set up a 60 mu organic agricultural industrial park, with investment totaling 5 million yuan ($762,819), a 183 mu tea plantation for 4.5 million yuan, and a livestock breeding base, which helped 199 people in poverty boost their take-home pay.

Wang from M-Grass said a digital plantation system needs to be established, so that farmers are able to know where and how to plant the characteristic seeds.

"My plantation income has increased by more than 40 percent, and the average income of more than 30 farmers working on the plantation has increased by about 20 percent," he said in an online interview.

Those who join the project get all the produce from their land, while the village offers plantation and cultivation services.

With its long-time edge in peanut plantation and production, a small township in Shandong province is pushing forward rural revitalization and generating new growth through an increasingly updated and complete industrial chain.

Currently, the hawthorn tree plantation in the city covers an area of over 667 hectares.

Yuncheng has 164,000 hectares of fruit plantation, with an annual production of 5.99 million metric tons.

For example, Own Master, a local coffee chain brand, uses online platforms to communicate directly with African coffee plantation owners.

Bui Van Hai, a farmer from Phuoc An Town in the Krong Pak district of Dak Lak province, just cleared his coffee plantation on 0.34 hectare of land for planting durian trees.

Pu'er, a major coffee bean plantation area in Yunnan, is more than 4,000 kilometers away from Kunyu in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, but the distance hasn't stopped the flavor of coffee from reaching local consumers in Xinjiang.

The flower plantation bases employ or involve over 2,400 farmers, generating a collective income of 12 million yuan for 796 poor families in Hezhang.

Then, the villagers increased the plantation to 400 mu to earn higher incomes.

Wu Tao, Party secretary and vice-chairman of the federation of trade unions of Huangping county, said, "We should grasp the business opportunity and take advantage of the good vibes that roses create, to further expand the plantation scale of roses and introduce more breeds.

With a total plantation area of 100,000 hectares, the annual apple output in Yuncheng reaches 4 billion kilograms and planting apples has become a mainstay for many farmers.

About four years ago, tea seedlings from Huangdu village, Anji county of Zhejiang province, helped poverty-stricken Pu'an county in Guizhou province develop 2,000 mu (133 hectares) of tea plantation area and increase the incomes of locals.

She has been working on the tea plantation since 2018, and is responsible for picking tea leaves and weeding out invasive flora.

"Our life is much more comfortable thanks to the tea plantation.

Tan Hua'ai, another local farmer, said the tea plantation helps improve her family's living standards.

"I can earn up to 3,000 yuan per month by working on the plantation, which is much more than before.

As a result, an increasing number of villagers had vacated to other places for work before the county established the tea plantation.

The team finally decided to plant a 2,000 mu tea plantation in Pu'an and donated enough seedlings to the county.

In order to make a harvest, Pu'an made a detailed plan covering construction standards, management and maintenance of the plantation, and also improved infrastructures such as water tanks, reservoirs, piping networks and dams.

Last year, the tea plantation was expanded from 2,000 mu to 13,000 mu, providing more opportunities for local farmers to get a job and increase their incomes.

According to the company, which was founded in 2017, the current plantation base has reached 1,600 mu (106.67 hectares), and its annual output value stands at 12 million yuan.

It has developed into a green food production company integrating rose plantation, processing, science research and leisure tourism.

In 2021, the plantation area of coffee in the province reached 93,333 hectares, yielding over 100,000 tons of coffee beans.

Yang, whose grandfather and father were the earliest coffee farmers in Pu'er to engage in large-scale plantations, has had a profound interest in coffee plantation since childhood.

Liao Xiugui is the owner of a local coffee plantation in Pu'er, Yunnan province.

They said the turning point was the establishment of the Xinzhou Chinese Coarse Cereals Hub Industrial Park in 2018, which made it possible for developing an extended industrial chain for the coarse cereals industry, ranging from research, plantation, processing, logistics, marketing and financing.

Cao said Malaysia has a unique geographical advantage in durian plantation.

"For sure we will have more big data platforms for durian plantation in the future.

In 2014, Zhang, a Jinghe native, decided to establish an organic goji berry plantation and add value to the product by developing the whole industry chain.

The pepper plantation in Hunan cannot meet the local demand from the dried chili pepper processing industry, said Li Wenxiang, an official with the Hunan provincial department of agriculture and rural affairs.

Yigong tea plantation, the highest in the world with an altitude of around 2,200 meters, welcomes its picking season from late May to early July.

"When I first came here, the plantation was not operated well, as it covered a small area with poor yields and quality of tea," Huang said.

As a traditional growing area of Chinese herbal medicines such as Angelica sinensis and Codonopsis pilosula, Gansu has 310,000 hectares of herbal plantation area with the output in 2019 amounting to 1.3 million tons and the output value chalking up 44 billion yuan.

Prakash Nopo, 47, a farmer from Andhra Pradesh state in southern India, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency, "With more chilies sold due to the corridor, income at our plantation has risen by more than 40 percent, with the average wage of more than 30 farmers working there growing by about 20 percent.

Currently, the plantation area of Bombyx surpasses 1,333 hectares.

But he kept thinking about his family's 150 pear trees, 30 waxberry trees and a big tea plantation back in his hometown.

Jin Weiqiang, a veteran Longjing tea grower in Meijiawu village in Hangzhou, said on Thursday: "The Longjing tea plantation will be ready for picking, as usual, in mid-March and we are still waiting for further notice from the village authorities (concerning the arrangements for tea-pickers).

"Usually, about eight leaf-pickers from nearby Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces are needed for his 3,300 square-meter tea plantation.

In Guizhou province, which has the country's largest tea plantation area, epidemic prevention and control measures have been adopted in the tea production areas, to mitigate the impact of the virus on spring tea production.

"For now, two rice varieties and two corn varieties we developed have received plantation permits in Myanmar," said Yang, adding that the high-yield hybrid rice from China helps improve the taste of Myanmar rice, allowing it to be sold at higher prices.

He noted that the Flower Research Institute under the academy is now offering free consultation services to floriculturists in Yunnan to help them stabilize plantation and production, and resume operations when the epidemic ends.

On a cherry plantation owned by Nativa Foods, 50 km from Chile's capital Santiago, cherry trees are basking in the hot sun.

The 30-hectare plantation produces 150 to 200 tons of cherries each year, with 95 percent of the output exported to the Chinese market.

Shen Xin, Party secretary of Tianjin Committee of Agricultural and Rural Affairs, said: "The city has teamed up with top research institutes and companies, including the Institute of Genetics and Biology Development under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tianjin Food Group and Haiken Group for improving plantation standards, developing quality seeds and advanced planting technologies for the major plantation areas in Jinnan, Ninghe, Baodi and Xiqing districts.

"In Baodi district, Tianjin Food Group has invested up to 30 million yuan to increase the plantation area to 2,066 hectares this year, according to Tianjin TV.

Jampal, the vice-chairman of the regional government, said with a plantation economy plan in the valley areas, the region will stand to benefit from the opportunity of the Belt and Road Initiative and the region's construction plan for the South Asia Great Channel, and will set up pilot plantations along the irrigation areas of Lalo, the rivers of Nyangchu, Shangchu in Shigatse city, and in many valleys of the region's Lhokha city.

"Thanks to the region's pilot livestock breeding and plantation projects in 21 counties, more than 110,000 rural residents received benefits, with each one seeing an income rise of 827 yuan in 2018," said Jampal.

Currently, Tibet has planned 41 barley plantation and processing projects valued at more than 3.05 billion yuan.

According to the Dalian Commodity Exchange, which operates the soybean futures trading in China, the trial implemented in Nenjiang county, one of China's largest non-genetically modified (GM) soybean plantation areas, covers 22 households with an outcome of 15,000 metric tons of soybeans this year.

Nestled in the El Balsamo mountain range in western El Salvador, Samour's coffee plantation, called Las Tinieblas (The Dusk), exports gourmet coffee to German, British and US markets.

"The plantation exports El Salvador's high-end "Pacamara Honey" variety around the globe, as part of the country's push to cater to the gourmet coffee market following the industry's recovery from coffee rust, a blight that hit Central America at the start of the decade.