china is increasingly helping the rest of the world get its coffee cake in recent years many farmers have converted to the crop some of them doubling their income to around $10.00 a day something with singing about. well far before i grew corn and potatoes but i made much less money than i do now with coffee. because. once famous for tea is now china s coffee capital the 1st plants were reportedly brought here by french missionaries some years later china is now the 13th biggest producer in the world culture both of which you are to have plantation is located near the tropic of cancer it s a very favorable area for coffee cultivation as altitude climate and 1900 millimeters of precipitation pay a year it s ideal. from bean to cup china is embracing coffee whatever form it takes. there is