"Coffee used to be an important agricultural product in Malaysia. There are two main varieties of coffee beans planted on this land, robusta and liberica, which are processed to sell coffee all over the world and become one of the daily beverages of Malaysians.

People who live in Malaysia probably have a common memory.

It's that there is always a pot of strong black coffee on the table at home, and you can drink a cup of coffee at any time at home, as if that is part of life.

At home, we can dry coffee beans and stir-fry them with sugar and butter, which used to be a sight to be seen in countless homes in Malaysia.

Today, however, many coffee plantations have been converted into oil palm plantations. ”

On the way to East Malaysia, Yang Jiawen began to explain the difficulties of her business, if it were not for the difficulties of operation, Yang Jiawen would not have rented out a profitable property she owned so simply.

Yang knows that if she can produce high-priced coffee, it means that her ability to pay her employees will be greatly improved.

Now the employees of the coffee garden are her old employees, and she has always insisted on not laying off the coffee garden and keeping everyone's job opportunities.

For many people, it will be very difficult to change careers in middle age, and there are very few new coffee plantations in Malaysia.

Even if there is a shortage of employees, most of them cannot afford to pay relatively high salaries.

The once glorious coffee industry is now facing a big impact.

Faced with the situation that the international market is determined by Europe and the United States, many small coffee plantation owners in Malaysia can only be sure of the profit of coffee tree replanting and simple management of oil palm plantations.

"What are the difficulties in running a coffee plantation?"

Lin Musen must know where the key point is, if it is not something he can solve, then investing in this industry is probably the first loss-making business he has done.

"Coffee plantations are regarded as a twilight industry by Malaysians, but the main reason is that coffee is too much human and financial resources.

At the same time that Malaysia is gradually becoming one of the six Asian tigers, it is also the salary of employees in Malaysia who is gradually increasing.

While salary expectations are rising, prices are not being paid properly in the international market.

Coffee plantations in Malaysia have become a common agricultural problem.

In fact, this kind of situation has also happened to Dayuan Island.

Dayuan Island was once an important producer of rice, sugar, and bananas.

It can even be said that for a while, these three agricultural products were the backbone of Dayuan Island's economy.

But with the industrialization of Dayuan Island, the farmland has shrunk sharply, the eating habits have changed, and most importantly, people's salaries have risen dozens of times.

As a result, the Taiwan Sugar Company on Dayuan Island had no choice but to divert its sugarcane fields to other uses, and then import sugar from abroad.

Because for it, the cost of imported sugar is much lower than that of locally produced sugar.

Even if the local sugar quality is very good, it cannot beat the challenge of price competition.

At that time, quality was not linked to price.

If the price guarantee of rice had not been implemented on Dayuan Island, perhaps the delicious rice on Dayuan Island would have turned into unpalatable Thai rice.

This is also the sequelae of economic development...... Now in Malaysia, most of the grassroots workers who want to be hired are only foreign workers.

The local children are happy to grow up, compared to our Dayuan Island.

Be picky about your work!

But I don't think it's a problem for you at all, you can give them a basic employee salary and make money at the same time.

It's just that you use some of the resources in the rice fields in Taitung, will the resources of the coffee plantation be a little insufficient?"

Yang Jiawen was very curious about the box that Lin Musen carried.

If you can pass the customs inspection, then there will be no water in it, and there will be no dirt or anything like that.

Although curious, Yang Jiawen knew to restrain herself.

The reason why many couples end up divorced is that there is no way to give each other **.

Yang Jiawen didn't think that she would be able to get Lin Musen's secret now.

Coffee is grown and will bear fruit in about three years.

Coffee trees have a very short flowering period, withering and bearing green fruit in about a week.

The green fruit will slowly turn yellow and turn red when ripe.

Ripe red coffee is a bit like a cherry. That's why it's also called cherry coffee.

If you pick the cherries and they taste soft, they are unformed coffee beans and don't taste good.

But ripe coffee beans will become hard and taste good when bitten, but there is a strong coffee flavor.

Peel off the red bean skin, you can see two symmetrical oval seeds, there is a film around the seeds, the white film is removed, and there is a layer of endocarp, commonly known as sheepskin, the sheepskin is removed, and what you see is the green coffee beans before roasting.

When the coffee beans turn from green to red, it is the season when the coffee is ripe, but the fruits are in a long line, but they are not ripe at the same time.

Therefore, the picking of coffee beans can only be done manually.

The ripe beans must be harvested by hand, and the unripe beans must be harvested for the next season.

If the harvest is carried out by machine at the same time, the quality will deteriorate, and the damage to the coffee tree will be great, and it will take two years to recover.

Most of the labor in the coffee garden is consumed here.

This is a time-consuming and labor-intensive thing, due to the very high labor cost, now Malaysia is basically harvested, must rely on foreign workers, but based on the quality of workers and management and other limitations, the quality of coffee beans is inevitably uneven.

Explaining this, Yang Jiawen suddenly added an explanation:

"My coffee garden has always been of good quality, and the price outside is okay. Because my orchards are all permanent employees. The coffee beans that can be provided are generally sold to restaurants. But I didn't go the Starbucks route. Since Starbucks is a large chain, it generally lowers the price of coffee from the coffee producing area.

In order to increase the profitability of the coffee plantation, most of the coffee processing takes place in the coffee plantation.

If you just sell raw materials, the price will be even lower. ”

After harvesting, the coffee beans are usually sent to the green bean processing plant, but in Yang Jiawen's coffee garden, green bean processing is also part of the orchard work.

With primary processing, they can ensure their profits.

After all, industrial profits are higher than agricultural profits, which is why their coffee plantations have survived until now.

In the green bean processing plant, the fruit can be turned into green beans by going through processes such as sun drying, hulling, grading and packaging into bags.

After refining, the green beans are roasted and then sold.

If compared with planting vegetables, the fertilization rate of coffee trees is low, as long as it is fertilized once every three months, the coffee trees planted in Yang Jiawen Coffee Garden have a strong ability to adapt to the environment, and the resistance to pests and diseases is also better, but it is a headache to control weeds.

In addition to weeding, fertilization, pruning, leaf pruning, tree control, etc., in Malaysia, this work is labor-intensive, which is different from the more extensive forms in Central and South America.

But comparatively, the quality of coffee in Southeast Asia is much better.

"I think it's a very good business model to control everything from production to sales.

Not to mention that it is more appropriate to serve something like coffee in our restaurant.

After all, our restaurant is not a purely Chinese restaurant.

At tea time, serving coffee should be acceptable to everyone.

Otherwise, you can simply start expanding the café.

After all, your restaurant business is too good for a leisurely coffee.

In Oyuan Island, most people drink coffee, in addition to enjoying the delicious food, they are enjoying a leisurely feeling. ”

"Isn't it when a lot of people drink coffee when they stay up late at work?

"Only when you drink coffee leisurely can you be in the mood to brew good coffee!"

Yang Jiawen felt that Lin Musen's problem was not good, and twisted his waist.

Lin Musen was in pain, and the corners of his mouth were upturned.

When he arrived at the coffee garden, Lin Musen did not go to the residence to rest first, but said to Yang Jiawen:

"Your coffee orchard should have someone in charge, I'm his new owner, let him come out to meet me, take me around the coffee garden by the way, and determine the boundary.

I'm also planning how much supplies I'll need, and if I don't have enough supplies, I'll have to see where I can find them around here. ”

"Okay, in fact, most of the employees are Chinese, and the person in charge is called Liu Guohong.

I asked him to be received at the gate of the park. At the same time, I asked him to bring everyone who could leave their jobs to come and meet the future big boss. ”

Regarding the salary, Yang Jiawen will discuss and decide with Lu Haodong, but it is not Lin Musen's business.

Although the boss has now become Lin Musen, the person who is actually responsible is still Yang Jiawen.

After meeting with everyone, Lin Musen asked everyone to continue to do their work, and then asked Liu Guohong to take him around the coffee plantation.

Take a tour of the coffee plantations.

Although there is a kind of coffee in Yunlin Gukeng, Lin Musen has never been to Yunlin Gukeng to see the coffee garden, because the land owned by every farmer on Dayuan Island is relatively small, located in Yunlin Gukeng Coffee Garden, there is no size, which can be compared with Yang Jiawen's coffee garden.

Five thousand acres of land, converted into a unit familiar to the people of Dayuan Island, Lin Musen didn't know how to calculate it.

While on patrol, Lin Musen applied an aura to the coffee trees he saw.

In the end, the supply of spiritual energy still depends on the water source.

Yang Jiawen Coffee Garden seems to have an automatic irrigation system, so that Lin Musen only needs to know the water source.

The math unit that Lin Musen was familiar with before had already been returned to the math teacher when he couldn't use it.

Anyway, he didn't remember the specific numbers, but he knew how big the coffee garden was.

It seems that Yang Jiawen's coffee garden is really not a small coffee garden, and Lin Musen is very tired after walking.

The temperature in Borneo is not high, and because it is relatively close to the ocean, the temperature is regulated by the ocean, so the temperature has been maintained at a pleasant temperature.

If you don't do outdoor activities, then you won't sweat.

On this day, the sky was overcast and there was no scorching sun, which made people feel comfortable.

Walking into the coffee garden, except for the square in front of the house, there is a yellow mud road.

Yellow soil means that there is not too much rainfall, and the soil contains less iron.

But compared to brown or black soils, yellow soils are much poorer.

Lin Musen recalled that the soil in Zuozhen and Lishan orchards originally seemed to be loess, but during this period of time, the color of the soil seemed to have gradually changed, and the change was relatively small, but the color of the soil gradually turned black.

Although the soil in the space does not grow weeds, there is no scene of a year old and a wither, but the soil is fertile, greasy black soil, but standing on it, your feet will not sink.

Sitting on the ground, your butt won't get muddy.

Seeing Lin Musen's eyes focused on the land, Liu Guohong took the initiative to say:

"The best soil for growing coffee is loose, fertile, well-drained, and the best soil is loalytic soil.

But not many of Borneo have volcanic ash soils.

However, in terms of temperature and rainfall, it is more suitable for planting than Dayuan Island, especially during the flowering period, which requires more rainfall. ”

Since it is not the season for the coffee trees to be harvested, and the new coffee fruits have not yet grown, so Lin Musen did not see the green fruits, nor the yellow or red fruits.

"If it's the flowering season, the coffee trees will be as beautiful as the snow in April. ”

When Liu Guohong talks about coffee, his tone is full of emotion.

However, when Lin Musen heard about the growing conditions of coffee trees, he knew that coffee trees were not suitable for soil and water conservation, and if they were planted on the slopes of the mountains, it would be a kind of damage to the environment of the slopes.

Especially during the fruiting period, because the nutrient needs of the fruit tree are very large, we do not allow weeds to compete with it for nutrients.

Therefore, under the coffee tree, there is almost no room for other plants.

That is, when the rain falls, the soil here will be washed away by the rain from the sky, and there is no protection.

However, coffee is now a national drink, just like tea tree.

Tea plants are planted likewise dislike in the root system, and there are many other weeds.

And the tea trees are not tall, even more than the sea of coffee trees, to facilitate picking.

The damage to the environment is even greater.

As a tea lover, he seems to have no way to review the cultivation of tea trees.

In the future, there will be no need to bare the soil, and the nutrients provided by the special water of the forest forest are enough for the coffee trees to get enough nutrients.

"There is no grass on the ground, it is easy to cause soil erosion, so in the future, plant some small grasses that will not hinder walking, preferably these small grasses, and there will be public use after the harvest. ”

Liu Guohong was a little stunned when he heard Lin Musen's instructions, he looked at Yang Jiawen, and didn't know whether to explain the problem of nutrition.

"Your new boss is very concerned about soil and water conservation, and for him, whether there is a harvest or not is the second thing, and the first important thing is to do a good job in soil and water conservation. Don't worry about him losing money, as long as he is willing to take care of the coffee trees, he will definitely bear fruit in the coming year. ”

Yang Jiawen took the initiative to explain.