Chinanews.com, Heyuan, November 9th, title: Barren hills bear "rich fruit", Guangdong 2.6 million acres of Camellia oleifera forest welcomes a bumper harvest
Author Cheng Jingwei Lin Yin
At the Camellia oleifera plantation base in Kangzhishun, Xishan Town, Lianping County, Heyuan City, the reporter looked around and saw that the branches of Camellia oleifera were luxuriant and leafy.
The unpicked Camellia oleifera trees are covered with light red tea fruits, which are woven together with the busy forest farmers and the white flowers blooming on the Camellia oleifera trees to form a "good harvest scene".
Recently, the reporter came to Lianping County, Heyuan City with the Guangdong Forestry Bureau to participate in the large-scale media interview activity of the "Guangdong Green Economy Reporters".
"This base has a total area of 1763 mu of camellia oleifera trees. At present, 800,000 jin of fresh camellia fruits have been picked, and the output is expected to exceed 1 million jin this year." The harvest will be completed in two or three days. This year is a good harvest year!"
Camellia trees in the Camellia oleifera plantation base in Kangzhishun, Xishan Town, Lianping County, Heyuan City Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
Before 2013, the mountainous land where the Camellia oleifera plantation base in Kangzhishun, Xishan Town, Lianping County was located, was still a barren mountain.
"As long as the management and protection are in place, the high-yield period of Camellia oleifera can reach 100 years." Zhang Weijie said that the base should strive to achieve "one mu of Camellia oleifera produces 100 jin of oil."
In recent years, Guangdong Province has vigorously developed the under-forest economy and promoted the integrated development of forestry specialty industries such as Camellia oleifera.
Among them, as the major city of the oil tea industry in Guangdong, the oil tea industry in Heyuan City focuses on the idea of "expanding scale, re-cultivating, creating brand, and increasing benefits", leading the oil tea industry to scale, standardize and industrialize.
According to Zhang Jinhui, president of the Heyuan Camellia Industry Association, Heyuan has a long history of cultivating Camellia oleifera, with suitable climate and good soil conditions, suitable for the growth of Camellia oleifera trees.
The city's existing planting area of Camellia oleifera is 772,700 mu. It is expected that the output of fresh fruit in 2021 will increase by more than 30% compared with previous years.
Camellia oleifera is a high-efficiency agriculture. Camellia oil is a high-quality edible oil. The oil-tea camellia oil is refined and processed into cosmetics and health products with higher economic benefits.
There are 25 oil-tea camellia processing enterprises and professional cooperatives in Heyuan City, and 9 enterprises with a daily oil output of more than 5,000 kilograms; 6 existing oil-tea camellia refinement processing enterprises have developed a total of ten oil-tea camellia-characterized daily necessities, nutritional formula oils, cosmetics, etc. A variety of extension products.
The shabby Camellia trees in the mountains have brought "real money" to the local people.
Forest Farmers Xide Harvest Photo courtesy of Guangdong Forestry Bureau
It is understood that there are 50 mountainous counties in Guangdong Province, which is a large forestry province with seven mountains, one water and two fields.
For forest farmers in mountainous areas, forest land is the main source of income.
At present, the planting area of Camellia oleifera in Guangdong Province is about 2.6 million mu. In 2021, the output of tea seed is expected to exceed 220,000 tons, with a total output value of more than 4.6 billion yuan.
The person in charge of the Guangdong Provincial Forestry Bureau stated that Guangdong attaches great importance to the development of the camellia oleifera industry, adheres to government guidance, market orientation, and enterprise leadership, combined with regional advantages and resource characteristics, and issued policy guidelines to transform low-yield and low-efficiency forests and promote new varieties and new technologies. Research and development, scientifically plan the development layout of the province's camellia industry.
In the past two years, 167 million yuan of central government subsidies have been issued, and relevant cities and counties have been organized to carry out the transformation of 364,000 mu of low-yield and low-efficiency camellia forests.
The province has 27 key national forestry leading enterprises and 300 provincial-level leading forestry enterprises; 13 national-level under-forest economic demonstration bases and 130 provincial-level under-forest economic demonstration bases.
At present, Guangdong has formed a Camellia oleifera industry with Heyuan, Meizhou, Shaoguan, Qingyuan and other cities as key development zones, and Maoming, Zhaoqing, Yunfu, Huizhou, and Jieyang as active development zones.
With the increasingly mature business model and production technology, Guangdong has formed a business model of “leading enterprise + base + professional cooperative + farmer households”. By actively exploring new mechanisms for diversified investment in the camellia industry, promoting bank-enterprise cooperation, strengthening credit support, and implementing forestry Supporting measures such as property mortgage loans, forestry discount loans and forest insurance encourage enterprises and farmers to develop Camellia oleifera production and operations, and effectively stimulate the enthusiasm of Camellia oleifera operators.
Guangdong also gave birth to a new model of "camellia +", driving the development of the secondary and tertiary industries in various districts and counties, and emerging trends of fusion of Camellia + tourism, Camellia + catering, and Camellia + culture.
Camellia oleifera is becoming a true portrayal of “get rich without cutting down trees” in Guangdong Province, opening up a new path for forestry to get rich.
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