Xinyang, April 1st, Chinanews.com.cn: "Red Land" Output "Golden Leaf" Helps Old People Increase Income and Poverty Alleviation
Author Li Guigang Xiang Wei
Treasures of heaven and earth are unique, and tea is the most expensive and clear in the world.
Qingming is approaching. Henan Xinyang Tea Garden, which covers more than 30,000 square kilometers of "Chinese Tea Capital", spans the three provinces of Hubei, Henan and Anhui, is full of fragrant tea.
"Huainan tea, Xinyang first." Located in Xinyang, the old revolutionary area of Dabieshan, tea cultivation is the leading industry. Xinyang Maojian is famous both at home and abroad. Tea farmers here regard tea as a "golden leaf."
Right now, the grass long warbler is flying, and the spring tea is picked at the time. A few days ago, a sudden "Peach Blossom Snow" made the 2.13 million mu tea garden in Xinyang more green and fresh.
In front of Chashan, a group of tea pickers flew at the fingertips of Chashan, and the spring breeze brought the tea fragrance. These tea pickers are making a final sprint for the "Ming Qian Tea" grab.
The picture shows a tea picking girl picking tea in Wenxin Tea Garden, Xinyang. Photo by Li Guigang
Spring tea is the highlight of Xinyang tea production, and more than 60% of the tea farmers' income comes from spring tea. As a labor export city, 8.8 million Xinyang people work as many as 2.4 million foreign workers all year round. However, during the tea harvesting season each year, 1.5 million short-term tea pickers are needed locally. This year the gap is as high as 500,000.
"Spring tea is expensive, and it is difficult to recruit." In recent years, "tea worker shortage" has been a headache for Xinyang tea farmers and tea companies. Xinyang, which is separated by a mountain from Wuhan, was once the hardest hit area of Henan's new crown pneumonia epidemic. At the moment of the epidemic, how to solve the difficulty in recruiting workers?
"In the center of Luohe River, tea is on the top of Cheyun." There are currently 158 villagers in Cheyunshan Village in Luohe District, of which 131 specialize in making tea, and the external demand employs 2,875 people.
In order to protect the rights and interests of tea farmers and tea pickers, and to solve the urgent needs of the workers, the local coordination organization signed an employment agreement between the tea farmers and the tea pickers.
Luo Chao, the director of Che Yunshan Village Committee, said: "In the past, the method of recruiting tea workers in our village mainly relied on human relations and the number of workers was unstable. Insurance, tea farmers have one less risk. "
The picture shows a tea picker picking wild tea leaves at Qipeng Organic Tea Garden in the mall
Xiao Guoping, director of the Bureau of Forestry and Tea Industry of Xinyang City, said that government departments at all levels help tea farmers and tea companies to recruit tea pickers from other places through various channels and channels. Greatly alleviate the "recruitment difficulties".
If it is urgent to solve the difficulty of recruiting from the fingertips to the tip of the tongue, then unblocking the way from tea to getting rich in the tea industry is a long-term plan.
Entering the tea room of Qipeng Organic Tea Factory in Shangcheng County, the tea is overflowing and refreshing.
"We guarantee the production of high-quality, high-quality green tea from high standards and high starting points in terms of tea seeds, fertilizers, equipment, etc., and strengthen and strengthen the organic tea brand through industrialization, scale, and standardization." Qipeng Organic Tea Factory in Shangcheng County Zhou Qipeng said.
In recent years, the construction of pollution-free tea gardens and organic tea gardens in Xinyang has been expanded to improve the quality of tea and polish the Xinyang Maojian brand. In Shangcheng County alone, thousands of acres of high-standard cloned tea gardens have been built, which has greatly improved the efficiency of the tea industry.
Hao Shan Hao Aquatic Products "Green" Good Tea. High-quality tea has won a good market reputation. The annual output value of Xinyang Maojian is more than 10 billion yuan, and the brand value of Xinyang Maojian is more than 6.5 billion yuan.
Once the tea industry matures, it will inevitably extend the industrial chain.
Luoshan County Lingshan Tea Industry Co., Ltd. has developed more than 80 varieties of tea products such as golden buckwheat green tea, conditioner, cleansing soap, and facial mask through cooperation with scientific research institutions, maximizing the benefits and accelerating the transformation and upgrading of the tea industry .
A small piece of tea has spawned many industries. In recent years, the social, economic, and ecological benefits of the Xinyang tea industry have become increasingly prominent, which also fits into Xinyang's development philosophy of "eco-city, green and rich people".
The thousands of miles of the Dabie Mountain and the mighty Huaihe River, two natural barriers protect this red land, and Xinyang was able to "put the city gently between the mountains and rivers." Driven by the brand effect of Xinyang Maojian, a large number of agro-ecological brands such as "Huaying Duck", "Nanwan Fish" and "Camellia Oil" have gone abroad and screamed at home and abroad. The road of getting rich in Xinyang people in Dabieshan's revolutionary old district is getting wider. (Finish)