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Nanyue: Spring equinox solstice, tea picking busy

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At the time of the spring equinox, as the temperature warms up, the first batch of spring tea of "Nanyue Yunwu Tea" has sent out new shoots and has entered the picking period. Tea farmers are seizing the current favorable opportunity to pick the first new teas of the Year of the Ox.

At an altitude of 800 meters above sea level, tea farmers are running back and forth in the misty tea garden, their fingers flying among the branches and leaves, pinching and mentioning, picking a piece of delicate new shoots, their skillful posture looms on the tea mountain, outlining a beautiful pastoral picture.

Tea farmer Chen Yuxiang told reporters that his family has invested in the cultivation and production of tea, and the annual gross income is more than 300,000, "I sorted out more than 200 acres of tea gardens from this barren mountain wasteland, and generally there are 30-70 people to help when picking tea, it is a good thing for me to make this tea, not only am I rich myself, but also drive the surrounding people to become rich." ”

After picking fresh tea leaves, after carrying out multiple processes such as spreading green, killing green, stir-frying, baking, etc., the first batch of spring tea is freshly baked and will eventually be sold to markets across the country.

It is understood that in 2020, the output of dry tea in Nanyue District will be 200 tons, with an output value of about 70 million yuan, and the per capita tea income of tea farmers in the whole district will reach 3200 yuan.

"The two committees of the village branch decided to unify the brand in 2021, unify management, strengthen quality control, strengthen publicity, and strive to double the revenue of the tea industry in 2021 compared with the previous year, so as to start a good start and make a good start for the '14th Five-Year Plan'!" For how to further expand and strengthen the tea industry, Zhang Aizhen, secretary of the village branch and village director of Longchi Village in Shouyue Township, is full of confidence.

Nanyue is located in the "China Tea Tree Advantage Industrial Belt" and "Golden Latitude Belt", which is an ideal place for the production of famous and excellent tea, and the only place where tea is produced in The Five Mountains. Nanyue tea farms are mainly concentrated in the Shouyue Township area above 600 meters above sea level, without any chemical fertilizer, not polluted by environmental pollution, the area of alpine tea gardens ranks first in the province, reaching 10,800 mu, is one of the 37 key tea producing counties in the province. In 2018, the top ten famous teas in Hunan Province, the public brand of Hengyang City- Nanyue Yunwu Tea, won the honorary title of "Top Ten Famous Teas in Hunan".

Kuang Xiangping, chief agronomist of the Nanyue District Agricultural and Rural Bureau, introduced that the next step will be to increase the supervision of tea garden production and manage it in strict accordance with organic standards; at the same time, promote tea enterprises to produce in accordance with the "Nanyue Yunwu" standard formulated; increase the publicity of the brand, lead enterprises out of Hunan, and build "Nanyue Yunwu" into a public brand in Hunan and even the whole country. (Correspondent Wenlan Zhou Xiangyu Editor Zhong Wenting)