Liangping Longshengxiang sweet tea picking is just in time to drive the surrounding masses to achieve employment

The spring breeze smiled at the green hill and was happy to see sweet tea everywhere. At present, it is the golden season of sweet tea picking in Longsheng Township, Liangping District, Chongqing, and local tea farmers have gone up the mountain to pick spring tea, and the tea garden can see the scene of busy farming everywhere.

A few days ago, the author walked into the sweet tea planting base of Longsheng Community in Longsheng Township, only to see a tea tree that is more than one person tall, and the fat and tender green shoots are crowded with branches, which is in stark contrast with the dark green old leaves. The air is filled with a faint aroma of tea, which makes people feel relaxed.

"It's close to home, so it's easy to take care of the family, and every year we come here to pick tea leaves." "She's been working here for several years, she's a veteran of tea picking, and we're here where she picks the most every day." In the tea garden, the tea pickers chatted with the author, and they did not idle to pick tea buds on their hands, they flew over with their hands and quickly picked the young leaves and put them into the cloth bag.

Fresh sweet tea leaves that the villagers have just picked. Correspondent Xie Qingcheng photo

Ou Ying is a member of the tea pickers. She told the author that the tea picking time began in mid-March and lasted until the end of May, and when the weather was sunny, she went up the mountain every morning to start picking at 7 o'clock and ended at 12 o'clock, and an average of 40 kilograms of tea could be picked per day. This tea garden has more than 300 acres, and almost 30 people work here every day.

It is understood that Longsheng sweet tea is an evergreen small tree, growing in a warm and wet mountain forest of 400-800 meters, often mixed with bamboo and pine trees, shade-tolerant, acid-loving soil, short days. Use the leaves to brew water as a tea, which has a sweet taste.

A piece of tea flourishes in a township. Since Longsheng Township, Liangping District, successfully applied for the national geographic trademark of "Liangping Sweet Tea" in 2014, the party committee and government of the township have been committed to the large-scale development of the sweet tea industry based on the goal of building a "sweet tea town". After several years of transplanting and cultivation, at present, There are 17 family farms and 8 enterprises in Longsheng Township planting more than 2,000 mu of sweet tea, and this year is expected to produce more than 3,000 jin of sweet tea, driving nearly 300 people around to achieve nearby employment.

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