| Dendrobium
medicinal orchids
Arctium lappa
Bitter Buckwheat
Buckwheat Pillows
Cherry-Apple: the mother species of all apples
Hoja para Tamal
Ammomum villosum
Blueberry
Chinese tea oil: Camellia oleifera
Gynostemma pentaphylla, Jiao Gulan
Hibiscus sabdariffa
Honey from nature reserves
Konjac (Amorphophallus)
Lingonberry
largest nut: Hodgsonia macrocarpa
Walnuts and cold pressed walnut oil
Musella lasiocarpa GOLDEN LOTUS
Yunnan green tea (forest tea)
Habanero
Yunnan Chili
Jalapeno
Mirasol
Pasilla
Poblano
Yunnan Vanilla
Ginger, ornamental & medicinal species
Contract growing
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Contract
growing of tropical plants, exotic flowers, herbal and cosmetic species,
and agricultural crops of China
We accept contract growing arrangements for export of crops, flowers,
and medicinal plants. Examples are Hibiscus, Ginger, Chili, konjac,
bananas, and many more species.
The advantages of our area in Southwest China are the clean environmental
conditions: there is no chemical industry in a radius of 700 km. If
you decide to arrange contract-growing with us we will cooperate with
local farmers from different ethnic groups and mountain tribes. Your
decision will therefore contribute to better living conditions for ethnic
communities in the remote border areas near Myanmar and Lao.
You may even go a step further and buy some hectare of rain forest for
the production of your plant species. If you chose this option, you
become member of the Rain Forest Farming Foundation (RFFF), which guarantees
that your plants are grown under natural conditions and with the participation
of local farmers. This option gives you not only the best deal in wholesale
prices, but you are contributing to improved livelihood of ethnic minority
farmers and you are protecting rain forest ecosystems. Read
more about how it works here.
The essential idea behind contract farming is to minimize the risk for
the farmers and in return get their best offer while assuring that their
product will be bought at an agreed price. For the traders it relieves
the international trading arrangements from the fluctuations of prices
per year and per season, and the products can be offered to the end-user
at a stable price and quality already a year in advance. A further advantage
is that qualities can be agreed in great detail including the use of
agricultural chemicals and ways of processing.
Example: supposed a trader finds this year's crop and prices acceptable,
he may place a reservation for a defined quality and quantity at an
agreed price for the next cropping season. This reservation should ideally
be done in form of a contract (unless trade partners have a good relationship
established). Some partners go a step further and design and produce
their own company-packaging and even advertising material and have their
products packed and shipped on specific instructions.
This is particularly true for horticultural products, but it is also
starting for special agricultural crops where e.g. pesticide-free and
socially fair farming is required. Our task in Yunnan is to oversee
the production sites of the farmers and monitor the quality of production,
processing, packaging, and shipping. To trade, contract growing is a
step toward "growing your own product", and to the farmers it is a step
toward "global marketing".
Thank you for your interest, and please contact us be e-mail for your
specific requirements.
Our production of Hedychium coccineum with mountain folks of Xishuangbanna
Please send us an e-mail if you feel this could be a viable alternative
for your production schemes.
Thank you
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wholesale
vente en gros
comercio al por mayor
For
wholesale of agricultural products, the prices given
are taken from the latest previous sale.
For the most recent trade prices, please contact
us by e-mail.
We
encourage importers (wholeseller; grossiste; mayorista) to consider contract
growing of crops through our farmers in remote areas. You will benefit
from products free of pesticides and you contribute to an improved
livelihood for the ethnic minorities of Yunnan.
Some
of our crops are collected in the buffer zones of National Parks and Nature
Reserves of China. We are co-operating with the park administrations to
support sustainable harvesting of secondary forest products.

freshly harvested very hot small chilli sold at our local market
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contract growing with us here:

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Your
ecologically friendly production:
proudly traceable!
Imagine, the traceability of your products leads your customers
to the tropical jungles of the Mekong river and to the Himalayan mountains
where Tibet meets Yunnan. Immerged in diverse culture and rich biodiversity,
your customers can visit the places and people where your products start
from pristine soils, clean air, and where they support the livelihood
of local ethnic communities.
Would this add to the sustainability and credibility of your business?
Would your trademark benefit from international
research publications lauding your company's involvement in saving the
rain forest?
If you are in the food, cosmetics, flower, herbal, and medical business,
certifying your products as contributing to biodiversity protection will
be an advantage with a competitive edge.
The TianZi Biodiversity Centre is working with German Universities to
design land use systems, which are bound to change paradigms: we promote
rare agro-biodiversity species, manage complexity, and find alternatives
to destructive forms of mono culture.
If all this is in line with your company's business concept - please contact
us.
The TianZi Team.
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