The spring breeze is warm, and the tea garden is fragrant. At present, many tea gardens in Qu County have entered the picking period, and tea farmers are shuttling through the tea gardens to pick spring tea when they are grabbing the agricultural time.
Good mountains breed good tea, good tea rich farmers. In the white tea planting base of Sichuan Shuhuang Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd., as far as the eye can see, the tea trees are all over the hills, the blue waves are undulating, the tea fragrance is overflowing, and the continuous tea gardens are quite spectacular. More than 1,000 tea pickers wore sunhats and carried bamboo baskets to shuttle through the sea of tea, and clusters of tender tea were skillfully picked, and the scene was busy.
Tea farmer Wei Ling: We have very strict requirements for picking white tea, we can't pinch it with our fingernails, it is a leaf and a core, and we need to use our thumb and index finger to pick it like this.
It is understood that this year's white tea in the base is better than in previous years, and the output is also higher than last year.
Wang Xuanfen, manager of the white tea base: At present, it has entered the peak period of picking white tea, and the number of tea pickers has reached about 1,300 people every day, and the faster one has about 200 (income), and the fastest action has about 300 (income).
The mountain is busy picking tea, and the tea is fragrant at the bottom of the mountain. In the tea workshop, the three production lines are fully opened, and the workers are processing the fresh tea leaves picked by the tea farmers, and the tea fragrance inside and outside the factory is overflowing.
Sheng Liming, chairman of Sichuan Shuhuang Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd.: This year, it is expected to pick 120,000 catties of fresh leaves (white tea) and make 30,000 catties of dry tea, except for a small part of the local sales, most of them will be sold to Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places.
In recent years, relying on the natural conditions and the superior climate suitable for tea planting, Quxian County has adopted the model of "enterprise + cooperative + farmer" to make the tea industry a green ecological industry with ecological beauty, excellent environment and rich people. Up to now, the county has developed 6,550 acres of various types of tea planting, and the annual output value of the tea industry is 80 million yuan.