China News Service, Hangzhou, March 15 (Wang Yifei, Bao Mengni) Hangzhou officials announced at a press conference on the protection and management of West Lake Longjing tea held on the 15th that West Lake Longjing tea will be officially mined on March 20 this year.
West Lake Longjing tea is one of the top ten famous teas in China.
In 2022, "West Lake Longjing", as an important part of "traditional Chinese tea-making techniques and related customs", was successfully selected into the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
It was announced at the press conference that day that the 43 varieties of West Lake Longjing tea this year will be officially mined on March 20, and the group varieties will be mined around March 27.
According to reports, this mining time is based on the 14 production monitoring points in the production area collected in the early stage, the 20-day growth monitoring data and the on-site investigation of the expert team. Representatives from the agricultural and rural departments of Hangzhou West Lake Scenic Area and tea farmers and tea enterprises made a comprehensive judgment.
Regarding the output and quality issues that are of concern to the outside world, Shao Jinghua, deputy director of the Hangzhou Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau (Hangzhou Rural Revitalization Bureau), said, “We judge that if extreme weather does not occur in the later period, the output of West Lake Longjing tea this year will remain stable and the quality will be better. Excellent.”
The reason is that since February this year, the weather has alternated between sunny and rainy, and the maximum temperature has remained below 25 degrees Celsius. The growth period of the overwintering buds of tea trees has been significantly extended, which is conducive to the accumulation of active ingredients in tea, and the contained substances will be richer.
At the same time, the high temperature last summer was not very strong, and the sunlight in autumn was sufficient. There was no extreme freezing weather last winter. In the West Lake Longjing tea production area, various agronomic measures such as organic fertilizer application and green prevention and control were widely used, allowing tea trees to grow generally. robust.
The reporter learned from the press conference that the output of West Lake Longjing tea in 2023 will reach 490 tons, and the output value of the entire industry chain will reach 1.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12%.
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