In the past few days, the tea garden of Dafa Yao Township, Pingle County, Guilin City has been full of vitality, and the sweet tea is bathed in the golden morning light, and the new sprouts are verdant and dripping. The villagers are carrying baskets on their backs, skillfully picking tea leaves, and their faces are filled with the joy of a good harvest.
Villagers are picking sweet tea leaves. Photo by Wen Yonghong
"We use the idle barren hillside land to plant sweet tea, this year the base has more than 600 acres of sweet tea, the output is expected to reach 180 tons, the income is more than 3.5 million yuan, sweet tea is really sweet into our hearts!" Mr. Xue, a grower, said. It is understood that sweet tea has the effect of "clearing heat and reducing fire, moistening the lungs, expelling phlegm, and suppressing cough", with the rising price of sweet tea in recent years and the implementation of the policy of rural revitalization and benefiting the people, the villagers use their own barren mountains to expand the cultivation of sweet tea, and now sweet tea has become an important industry for the local people to increase their income and get rich.
Villagers are picking sweet tea leaves. Photo by Wen Yonghong
Based on the advantages of resources, the township implements the "industry + development" strategy of sweet tea, making sweet tea a wealthy industry for the people of Yao Township, and effectively boosting rural revitalization. Sweet tea planting has the advantages of low development cost, low input, quick effect, easy management, the planting method is mainly to transplant the new plants that grow from the roots, only need to plant once, the plants will be more and more, and can be harvested continuously for many years. This is a good way to get rich in Dafa Yao Township, which has many mountains and forests and few flat lands.
Villagers are drying sweet tea leaves. Photo by Wen Yonghong
In recent years, the township to "tea" as the center of the circle, to the tea industry, cultural tourism, e-commerce industry radiation, through the construction of "enterprise + cooperative + base + farmer" model, work together to create a "sweet leaf" characteristic brand, the establishment of a number of "production + processing + sales" full chain sweet tea processing plant, and constantly broaden sales channels, at present, the township sweet tea planting area of more than 12,000 acres, annual sales of about 3,000 tons, products are exported to overseas.
Source: People's Daily Online-Guangxi Channel
Author: Yu Nanzhi Tu Kun