On April 28, the first tea season has passed. The "hometown of Chinese black tea" Yingde drizzle, yingjiu manor tea production workshop but full horsepower, tea farmers pick tea after a series of standardized production processes and then sealed, and then sent to the world.
The workshop of Yingjiu Manor in Yinghong Town, Yingde City, is in the process of withering tea leaves.
Not long ago, Yingjiu Manor and Hong Kong Dynasty Group Co., Ltd. signed a US$20 million Yingde black tea export order contract in Qingyuan Yingde, which is the first foreign trade export order of Yingde black tea after the entry into force of the China-EU Geographical Indication Agreement.
"Yingde black tea comes with its own 'going to sea' gene, and in the 1960s it was a representative agricultural product for export earning foreign exchange. After being selected into the first batch of mutual recognition lists of products protected by Geographical Indications between China and europe, it will provide great benefits for us to open up the EU market. Yuan Chengjun, vice mayor of Yingde City, introduced.
By the end of 2020, the planting area of tea gardens in Yingde City will reach 162,000 mu, the output of dry tea will reach 12,100 tons, the comprehensive output value of the tea industry will be 5.054 billion yuan, and there will be more than 558 tea-related enterprises, and it is expected that the area of tea gardens in the city will reach 180,000 mu in 2021, with an output of 13,500 tons and a comprehensive output value of more than 6 billion yuan.
Ying Jiu Manor.
Standardized production processes stabilize product quality
Yingde black tea soup is bright and red, the taste is mellow and sweet, and it is the "white moonlight" in the hearts of many tea lovers. Growing high-quality Anglo-German black tea is not an easy task.
"We call it smart production tea garden, fully implement the 'water and fertilizer integration + meteorological forecast + green prevention and control of pests and diseases + safety supervision and traceability" management technology with nutritional diagnosis as the core, without pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Wang Guangping, general manager of Yingjiu Manor, introduced that Yingjiu Manor uses digitalization and standardized planting management throughout the process to achieve the standardization of tea planting.
The quality of tea is good, in addition to the high requirements for raw materials, it is also necessary to have standardized processing and production technology to ensure stable production quality.
At Ying Jiu Manor, the "6T" standard is implemented from the tea garden to the tea cup. "6T refers to ecological standards, breeding standards, planting standards, process standards, quality control standards and drinking standards." Wang Guangping said.
The workshop of Yingjiu Manor in Yinghong Town, Yingde City, is in the process of drying tea leaves.
Taking the process standard as an example, the tea processed here adopts the long-term low-temperature fermentation technology of the Tea Research Institute, which is kneaded twice and baked and dried twice. "Digitizing every process and digitizing the top experience of the top masters helps us make high-quality and stable black tea." He said.
As the main body of the implementation of the Yingde Black Tea Provincial Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Yingde City and the Modern Agricultural Industrial Park in Qingyuan Black Tea Advantageous Production Area, the yingjiu manor smart ecological tea garden planting area of 1,000 mu, 1 central intelligent tea factory, 3 regional processing sub-centers, 1.5 million jin of dry tea processing per year, comprehensive annual output value of 300 million yuan, in addition, also to create a "'1 + N' + family farm (cooperative)" industrialization consortium model, industrial services covering 30,000 mu of tea gardens.
This is a vivid example of the achievements of the construction of the modern industrial park in Yingde City. On April 16, the modern agricultural industrial park of Yingde City, Guangdong Province, was incorporated into the national modern agricultural industrial park creation management system, and the construction of modern agricultural industrial park is an important starting point for promoting rural revitalization, which greatly promotes the development of The Yingde tea industry.
The cultivation and protection of geographical indications helps industrial development
In the Guangdong Tea Germplasm Resource Bank of the Tea Research Institute of the Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the stones engraved with the four characters of "Yingjiu Source Hongyan Dangge" are particularly conspicuous. This is the birthplace of the "YingHong Ix".
Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture, and the cultivation of The Yinghong Ninth has undergone generations of hard work. "Since its establishment, the Institute of Tea Science has bred 10 national-level fine varieties, 7 provincial-level fine varieties, obtained 5 national plant new variety rights, and the contribution rate of asexual tea plants in the province and the contribution rate of scientific and technological contributions has exceeded 80%." Feng Pingwan, deputy director of the Tea Research Institute of guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, introduced.
As a "resource bank" and "think tank" of the tea industry, the Institute of Tea Science has preserved more than 1,800 copies of tea germplasm resources and 171 copies of camellia oleifera resources. "We have also established a key technical system for the cultivation of high-quality and efficient ecological tea gardens, so that the yield and quality of tea have been significantly improved and improved, reaching the international advanced level." Feng Pingwan said.
At the beginning of its existence, The Yingde black tea that successfully achieved "going to sea" once experienced a period of "barbaric growth", with different planting standards and product standards. With the gradual standardization and scientificization of the protection of geographical indications in China, the development of Yingde black tea has also had a "booster".
"Yingde black tea was selected into the first batch of Sino-European geographical indication protection product mutual recognition list, marking the RECOGNITION and affirmation of the quality of Yingde black tea in the EU market, which is a good development opportunity for Yingde black tea, and also means that we must develop our characteristic black tea industry with an international vision and higher standards, and enhance the international market influence and competitiveness of Yingde black tea." Tang Qingquan, director of the intellectual property unit of the Yingde Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau, introduced.
Tang Qingquan introduced that in the next step, the market supervision department of Yingde City will take the opportunity to carry out the declaration of the Yingde Black Tea Geographical Indication Product Protection Demonstration Zone, carry out in-depth investigation and research, establish a geographical indication product database, and make geographical indication products an important boost for rural revitalization.
According to reports, at present, there are 37 enterprises in Yingde City that have been approved to use the special sign of the geographical indication of Yingde black tea, 4 enterprises have been approved to use the special mark of the geographical indication of the western cow and hemp bamboo shoots, and this year, 25 tea enterprises have been launched to apply for the use of the special sign of geographical indication.
[Reporter] Bin Hongxia Wang Jiaxin
【Photography】 Jin Di
【Author】 Bin Hongxia; Wang Jiaxin; Jin Di
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
Source: South+ - Create more value