Chinanews.com, Hangzhou, March 6th (Zhang Yuhuan) As the spring is getting stronger, Jingshan tea, which has been dormant for the winter, begins to reveal new greenery. In Yuhang, Hangzhou, more than 70,000 mu of tea gardens will also usher in the busiest time of the year. day.
According to comprehensive research and judgment, this year's Jingshan tea will be officially mined around late March. According to experts, this year's local Jingshan tea is growing well, and the output is expected to increase compared with last year, and the quality is also higher.
Recently, in the Wufeng tea garden in Jingshan, Yuhang, Hangzhou, the tea tree varieties "Jingshan No. 1" and "Jingshan No. 2" planted as female parents in 2018 quietly emerged. The tea farmers were busy shuttling among them, carefully checking the growth of the tea trees situation, get ready for spring tea picking.
As one of the main producing areas of tea in Zhejiang Province, Yuhang has a history of more than 1,200 years of tea cultivation and is also the birthplace of "Kingshan tea", the source of Japanese tea ceremony.
In the past two years, the local area has comprehensively promoted the integrated development of tea ecological planting, intensive processing, brand marketing, and tea tourism.
"At present, there are 8 acres of 'Jingshan No. 1' and 'Jingshan No. 2' in the tea garden. These tea seedlings are flourishing and growing gratifyingly." In Jingshan Wufeng Tea Garden, Ma Kuan, general manager of Wufeng Tea Industry, said, " It is not easy to drink a cup of good tea, and new tea seedlings need years of hard work from cutting to picking.”
It is understood that the "Jingshan No. 1" and "Jingshan No. 2" tea tree varieties are special varieties of Jingshan tea that have been jointly selected and bred by the Yuhang District Agriculture and Rural Bureau and the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences for ten years.
"Compared with the samples of Jingshan tea group species, the selected two varieties have more stable aroma, more beautiful fluff, and a 20%-30% increase in yield per mu." Tea Germplasm Resources of Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences Ma Chunlei, associate researcher of the team, said.
In order to allow tea farmers to plant such good varieties, Yuhang will promote the planting of special varieties of Jingshan tea in a large area in the local area. It is expected that more than 200,000 special varieties of Jingshan tea with strong vitality and regeneration value will be promoted in Yuhang District this year. to plant.
In addition, Yuhang District will complete the construction of a seedling breeding base for special varieties of Jingshan tea this year, and will continue to supply tea seedlings to local tea planting towns and towns.
It is understood that there are more than 20,000 tea farmers in Yuhang. Last year, the total output value of Jingshan tea industry reached 5 billion yuan, and the total sales of agricultural products reached 1.3 billion yuan.
In order to bring farmers' sales to a new level, last year Yuhang held Jingshan tea marketing competition and e-commerce live broadcast training to teach farmers to shoot videos and write copywriting.
In the training class, the tea farmers put down their hoes, picked up their mobile phones, and learned how to start, drain, and cash out.
Tong Youxiang, 50 years old this year, is an old tea farmer who has planted Jingshan tea for 30 years. His family has a tea garden of 108 mu.
In the past, Tong Youxiang relied on friends to sell "face tea", and the stability of sales needs to be improved.
Hearing about the online marketing training, she signed up immediately.
"I hope that through the online live broadcast, my tea can be sold to farther places, and more people can know about our Jingshan tea." Tong Youxiang said.
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