"Duobei Tea" is a regional public brand in Puding County, after more than ten years of development, the planting area has increased from 7,000 mu in 2007 to nearly 100,000 mu. At present, it is the peak season of tea picking, which requires a lot of labor, and the local government has opened a free bus line, which is connected to the tea garden at one end and the people at the other end, awakening the "two springs" of Duobei.
At half past five in the morning, at the bus station of Zhongxing Avenue in Puding County, more than a dozen tea pickers gathered. Aunt Mu, a tea picker, told reporters that this is her fourth day of tea picking, and she gets up at 4 o'clock every day, walks from home to the bus station, and takes a free bus to Chashan.
Tea pickers waiting for the car
In the local area, there are a total of 9 stations where tea pickers can ride for free. Wang Peng, squadron leader of the sixth squadron of the Puding County Transportation Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Brigade, said: "The Puding County bus line has been opened for the third year this year. Every year from mid-March to early May, eight buses are put into operation, which can transport about 200 tea pickers every day. ”
Wang Peng
When it comes to the tea picking season, many tea factories send special cars to pick up tea farmers for free. Also at the bus stop, Master Yao, a tea plantation driver in the direction of the Indishan Reservoir, said: "The earliest bus is at 5:30, and it takes 20 minutes to go to Chashan. Every day is fully loaded. ”
In the tea mountains, there are already many tea farmers who brave the drizzle and start picking tea before dawn. Sister Chen, a tea picker, lives in the dormitory provided free of charge in the tea garden, and she told reporters while picking tea that it is very convenient to work in the tea garden to eat and live, and she can earn about 200 a day.
Sister Chen, a tea picker
Factories grab people, and tea farmers grab time, all in order to seize the spring tea market. In Puding White Tea Town, more than 90% of the tea is sold to Zhejiang. The local planting advantages of high altitude, low latitude and cloudy fog make the picking season of Duobei white tea earlier than that of Zhejiang, with a higher yield per mu and a longer picking period.
Luo Xiaobo
Luo Xiaobo, general manager of Puding Liangfeng Tea Co., Ltd., is a tea merchant from Zhejiang, and this year marks his 10th year of growing tea in Puding County. He told reporters: "Puding County produces 15 days earlier than our hometown Zhejiang every year, and has an absolute origin advantage. Famous tea can occupy 100% of the market share, the average catty is 50 yuan higher, our tea garden planting area of more than 2,000 acres, now there are more than 2,000 people picking tea every day. ”
Yao Chunlei
Yao Chunlei, head of the Guizhou Mingzhiyuan Tea Professional Cooperative, was the first person in Dishan Village in Puding County to mobilize the people to plant tea, and he told reporters that 30% of the cost of making and selling Duobei white tea should be used to pay for tea picking.
From March to April, when the tea picking season is at its peak, Yao Chunlei runs around the tea plantations every day, he said: "Enterprises are also racing against time, rushing for time and benefits, providing accommodation and pick-up services. Even the breakfast, including the bamboo basket they used to pick tea, was brought to the ground for them every day, and the participation of the people was very high. The daily salary of tea picking is cash, and the daily salary of good picking can be more than 300 per day. ”
Sister Yang, a tea picker, usually does some manual work at home, and every year during the peak season of tea picking, she will come to the tea garden to work: "I have to play, get money and eat, collect 30 yuan a catty, and earn 1,370 yuan in five days, which is more than making money at home." The money is in the purse, and I am very happy to buy whatever I want. ”
Sister Yang
Duobei tea not only brought income to the villagers, but also made many local people rich. Yao Chunlei, who used to engage in coal mining trade, now has more than 1,000 acres of tea plantations. Yao Chunlei told reporters with a smile: "We often joke that we used to engage in destruction, but now we are engaged in ecology. In the past two years, the east-west cooperation policy and the increase in investment in the agricultural industry have been very helpful to us. Every 50 acres there is an intensive cultivation road, every 20 acres of organic cultivation road, and every 10 acres there must also be a tea picking road. ”
Growing tea is not only a hard work, but also a technical work. Relying on the technical support provided by a team of experts such as Guizhou University, the local government has implemented "treating grass with grass" and "treating insects with insects". In 2023, spring tea production increased by 17.8%. Yao Chunlei told reporters that the roots of clover can absorb the nitrogen components in the soil, improve the fertility of the soil, and inhibit the growth of other weeds;
Shi Yongbin, a science and technology commissioner at the Puding County Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, said that in the past year, Puding County's tea plantations have reduced the use of pesticides by at least 20 percent. Next, the local government also plans to promote photosynthetic enzyme products in tea gardens to improve the photosynthetic efficiency of tea gardens and increase the yield of green tea.
In the past two years, many individual growers in Indishan Village have grown tea in their fields. In the past year, the tea planting area in the village has increased by 600 acres. Hong Fu, a villager in Indishan Village, is a large individual tea grower. This year is the third year of his tea planting, and he told reporters that in the past, when he planted corn, he only had a net income of one or two hundred yuan per acre, but after planting tea, he could earn about 1,000 yuan per acre. In the past few years, the family has also renovated the old house, and the tiled house has become a two-story small building of 300 square meters, and the days are getting more and more prosperous.
Villager Hongfu
Chu Daiyang
Chu Daiyang, village secretary of Dishan Village, Puding County, said: "In the past, the village was all barren mountains, there was no industry, and the output value of the village's agriculture was more than 1 million. Now tea has become a leading industry in our village, and the output value of a single tea industry is 10 million. ”
When night fell, 57 tea processing enterprises in the county began to get busy, processing fresh tea picked during the day overnight, and making dried tea products before dawn and sending them to all parts of the country. Zhou Yuanxin, head of the Puding County Tea Production Management Station, said: "As soon as our Puding tea is produced, it will reach the secondary market. Every year, some regular customers come to us about 10 days in advance to book tea in advance. In Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, there are our products. ”
Finished dry tea
Zhou Yuanxin
In the past year, the tea output value of Puding County was 820 million yuan, an increase of 60 million yuan year-on-year. This year's tea picking season has led to the employment of 12,000 people, and the per capita income has increased by 1,500 yuan.
Villagers pick tea collectively
The two springs of "Duobei Tea", one in the new green of the tea mountain, and the other in the pockets of the common people. I believe that more and more people will bring this treasure that was once hidden in the mountains to the tea table and taste spring.
(Reporter: Yang Minming, Shi Yao)