China News Service, Laifeng, Hubei, December 18 (Guo Xiaoying and Wu Yili) "In remote ravines, it is these rattan tea that make the villagers live a good life now." Recently in Shadaowan Village, Laifeng County, Hubei Province In the tea garden, said Chen Yongsheng, the non-genetic inheritor of rattan tea making skills.
The processed rattan tea is as white as frost and as thin as dragon's whiskers.
Photo by Zhou Xingliang
He taught the farmers to plant these rattan teas.
Entering December, he often went to tea gardens to instruct tea farmers in weeding and pruning.
In March of next year, these rattans will sprout fresh and tender shoots, growing pieces of "golden leaves" that help the Tujia people get rich.
"Youxi tea in seven Wuling counties is the best." Youxi is Laifeng County in the southwestern border of Hubei. Tea is the local rattan tea.
The scientific name of rattan tea is Xiantooth Snake Grape, commonly known as berry tea and white tea. It is called "Ancient Tea Uncaria" in the Book of Songs. It is a vine plant that was born on the rocky slopes of Wuling Mountain.
Laifeng is "the first county of rattan tea in China", with a long history of growing and drinking rattan tea locally.
In the mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation and lack of medical care and medicine in the past, Tengcha used to be the medicine used by the Tujia people to treat chronic diseases.
Workers pack and pack rattan tea in the Xiaosi Teng tea production workshop in Shadaowan Village, Baifusi Town.
Photo by Zhou Xingliang
The production process of rattan tea is cumbersome and requires 21 processes such as picking, leaf selection, finalization, and multiple fermentations.
The Chen family is a family of vine tea, and the planting, picking and tea making techniques have been passed down from generation to generation.
Chen Yongsheng inherited the mantle of his father's generation and became the 7th generation of Tujia rattan tea inheritor.
He founded Hubei Xiaoxi Teng Tea Co., Ltd., using the "company + base + farmer" model to promote the development of the rattan tea industry.
Now the company's rattan tea products are sold to more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, with annual sales of 90 million yuan.
Xiang Guoying pushed down the stone house he had lived in for decades and built a new two-story house.
Photo by Guo Xiaoying
“We provide farmers with scientific planting technology and bio-organic fertilizers. Farmers plant according to requirements and standards. The company guarantees income and purchases fresh leaves in cash for processing and sales.” Chen Yongsheng said that scientific planting and business models have allowed vine tea to be evenly distributed. Production capacity and farmers' income have increased significantly.
“In the past, we grew rice and corn, and we ate very tightly and had no income. Life was not easy.” A villager from Shadaowan village told Guoying that she and her husband could only guard one mu of their own family. It is impossible to get rich by dividing land. Nowadays, five or six acres of rattan tea are planted, and there is a steady income of tens of thousands of yuan each year.
Shadaowan Village is located in the west of Baifusi Town, Laifeng County, with 8 cents of farmland per capita.
The village developed more than 2,000 mu of rattan tea planting bases in accordance with local conditions, with an average income of more than 5,000 yuan per mu, and became an important "pushman" for local farmers to get rid of poverty and become rich.
In 2017, Shadaowan Village achieved the whole village.
In 2018, Xiang Guoying pushed down the stone house he had lived in for decades and built a new two-story house.
There are green plants in the front yard of the new house and ducks in the back yard. The room is spacious and bright, and the house is equipped with a TV, refrigerator, washing machine, gas stove, and water purifier.
"After the beginning of the year, I will rent a few more acres of land to grow tea, and my income can increase by tens of thousands." Xiang Guoying believes that in the future, the life of the whole family will be like rattan tea. sweet.
In fact, rattan tea is not the industry of a village in Shadaowan Village, but the "pillar" of Laifeng, Fumin, and strong county.
According to Yang Mao, deputy magistrate of Laifeng County, the county is currently developing a planting area of 80,000 mu of rattan tea, a total of 46 rattan tea cooperatives, 31 rattan tea primary processing plants, and leading enterprises such as Laifeng Jinqitengcha Biological Co., Ltd. A total of 69 products in four major series have been developed. More than 10,000 farmers in more than 100 villages are engaged in rattan tea planting and related industries. The comprehensive output value of rattan tea exceeds 1 billion yuan.
“Without industrial revitalization, there would be no rural revitalization. Rattan tea and Huangjing are the leading industries in Laifeng, and they are also important carriers for the consolidation of the poverty alleviation results.” Laifeng County Party Secretary Li Wei said that Laifeng will highlight its advantages and base its characteristics on the whole industry. The chain develops characteristic agricultural industries such as rattan tea and Huangjing, allowing farmers to share the value-added benefits of the industry and embarking on a road of rural revitalization with distinctive characteristics and vitality.
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