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http://www.nasdaq.com/article/chinas...owing-cm259370

China's Coffee Hit: Starbucks and Nestle Dominate, but the Market Is Still Growing

"What About Tea?

Given the longstanding tradition of tea drinking in China, it's unlikely that coffee will replace tea as the drink of choice. Nevertheless, there is clearly huge potential for coffee in China. In fact, China is Starbucks' biggest market outside of the USA , and there is plenty of potential for other Western brands. In addition, according to Caijing.com.cn the coffee-drinking culture has not yet reached its "tipping point" in China, and the coffee market occupies a relatively low market share per capita in China, compared to Western countries. However in the near future it is expected to rise steeply ".

I found very interesting above information from the link. Thanks. I believe consumers in Asian Pacific region led by China will create great demand for Tea and coffee in the coming years and decade. It is time to look for Agri and Food based companies in Asia including China.

My ideas are not a recommendation to either buy or sell any security, commodity or currency. Please do your own research prior to making any investment decisions.
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China Green Agriculture Signed a Tripartite Cooperation Memorandum with Business Strategy Partners

XI'AN, China, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- China Green Agriculture, Inc. (NYSE: CGA; "China Green Agriculture", "we" or the "Company"), a company that mainly produces and distributes humic acid-based compound fertilizers, other varieties of compound fertilizers and agricultural products through its subsidiaries in China, today announced that one of the Company's wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the PRC, Shaanxi TechTeam Jinong Humic Acid Product Co., Ltd. ("Jinong"), entered into a tripartite cooperation memorandum with its business strategy partners, Tea & Food Marketing Co., Ltd ("Tea-Food"), a COFCO subsidiary, and Xi'an Gem Grain Co., Ltd ("Gem Grain") to jointly develop the Company's new business model in growing the sales of fertilizers as well as green agriculture products.



Tea-Food, the major sales subsidiary of China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation ("COFCO"), is mainly dedicated to the development of distribution channel for agriculture products in the COFCO family. The marketing effort of Tea-Food has been under aggressive expansion in current years. (For more information about Tea-Food, please refer to the link at http://www.tea-food.net/.) Being state-owned, COFCO is the largest food processing, manufacturer and trader in China. (For more details about COFCO, please refer to the link at http://www.cofco.com/en/ andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COFCO_Group)
Xi'an Gem Grain Co., Ltd. ("Gem Grain"), a subsidiary of the Xi'an Techteam Investment Holding (Group) Co., Ltd, ("Techteam Investment") focuses on producing high-end private customized organic agricultural products and fresh agricultural products sales, was founded on March 2014. Techteam Investment is a holding company owned and controlled by Mr. Tao Li, Chairman and CEO of the Company.
The objectives of this tripartite cooperation memorandum are: 1) establish a tripartite strategic partnership to jointly develop new distribution models of green agriculture products from proprietary farming. 2) focus on the development of online, offline, online-to-offline ("O2O") distribution channels. 3) develop pilot marketing program jointly for the foregoing distribution channels.
Per the newly signed memorandum, the threesome agreed to combine competence of each own to market selected agriculture products batch by batch. The threesome had reached the consensus on the selection of the first batch of the agriculture products. The first batch is due to deliver for sales by the end of October.
As part of the tripartite cooperation, the Company will deliver quality agricultural products and materials for Gem Grain's proprietary farm. With that, Gem Grain will wholesale quality green foods to COFCO. The Company and Gem Grain will further assist COFCO in the marketing and sales of green foods via Tea-Food's distribution channels as well as the Company and Gem Grain's distribution channels.


Mr. Tao Li, Chairman and CEO of the Company, commented, "We are excited to sign the tripartite cooperation memorandum with our strategic partners. This co-op will provide an excellent opportunity for us to penetrate into the green food market strategically. I believe the co-op will enrich the selling of our products and help to boost the Company to become a leader in China's agricultural industry."
About China Green Agriculture, Inc.
The Company produces and distributes humic acid-based compound fertilizers, blended fertilizers, organic compound fertilizers, mixed organic-inorganic compound fertilizers, slow-release fertilizers, highly concentrated water soluble fertilizers and agricultural products, such as top-grade fruits, vegetables, flowers and colored seedlings through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Shaanxi TechTeam Jinong Humic Acid Product Co., Ltd. ("Jinong"), Beijing Gufeng Chemical Products Co., Ltd. ("Gufeng") and a variable interest entity, Xi'an Hu County Yuxing Agriculture Technology Development Co., Ltd. ("Yuxing"). Jinong produced and sold 125 different kinds of fertilizer products as of June 30, 2014, all of which are certified by the government of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") as "Green Food Production Materials", as certified by the China Green Food Development Center. Jinong currently markets its fertilizer products to private wholesalers and retailers of agricultural farm products through 926 distributors in 27 provinces, four autonomous regions, and three central government controlled municipalities in PRC. Gufeng, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Beijing Tianjuyuan Fertilizer Co., Ltd., are Beijing-based producers of compound fertilizers, blended fertilizers, organic compound fertilizers, and mixed organic-inorganic compound fertilizers. As of June 30, 2014, Gufeng produced and sold 328 different kinds of fertilizer products, and marketed its products through 263 distributors among China. As of June 30, 2014, the Company had a total of 1,189 distributors and 453 different fertilizer products. For more information, visit http://www.cgagri.com. The Company routinely posts important information on its website.