Baise on March 3 (Zhongxin Net) -- In recent days, in Lingyun County, Guangxi, southeast of Cen Wang's old mountain, mountain grass and trees are shrouded in water vapor. On March 17, Luo Gengying, Yang Yunhua and other tea farmers from Bailong Village, Gayou Town, came to the tea garden early and picked the first buds in spring with extremely fast "hand speed", and the whole tea garden was a busy scene.
"This leaf does not grow much, but the price is good, and the single bud fresh leaf can be sold for 60 yuan a pound (RMB, the same below), all because of Qingming tea!" Luo Gengying said. As a tea farmer who has grown tea for more than 20 years, what she means by Qingming tea refers to the budding of tea plants before and after Qingming.
Every year around Qingming, the tea plant has experienced nine cold winter recuperations and spring wind and rain nourishment, revealing green shoots, and Qingming tea, which is favored by tea customers, enters the picking season. Due to the advantage of Qingming tea being launched early, every year during the Qingming period, dealers from Guangdong, Yunnan, Zhejiang and other places to buy tea in Lingyun are endless, and Qingming tea is also continuously sold out of Lingyun Mountain and sold all over the country.
Infographic: Villagers picking tea. Photo courtesy of Lingyun County Rong Media
According to the statistics of the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Lingyun County, the total area of tea gardens in the county will be stable at 2022,11 mu in 2, of which the area of organic tea gardens will be 2,3 mu; the total output of dry tea for the whole year will be 0,78 tons, an increase of 11.15% year-on-year, and the output value will be 6 million yuan, an increase of 82% year-on-year, and the average price will be 10.43 yuan / jin.
When talking about the "morning" of "morning tea", Xie Zaiteng, deputy director of the Lingyun County Economic Crop Development Center, said that since the Ming Dynasty, the people of Lingyun County have become a habit of drinking tea and began to operate tea gardens, and the ancestors of the Longxi Tun Han people in Baima Village in Sicheng Town opened the first tea garden in the history of Lingyun on a dirt slope around Dashi Mountain, and there has been a history of tea cultivation for more than 800 years.
According to statistics, at present, Lingyun County has received about 2023,2000 tons of dry tea intentional orders in 100, including 20 tons of Qingming tea (morning tea, spring tea), and more than 2000 spring tea loan credit agreements signed by banks and tea enterprises, with a credit amount of more than 10 million yuan; Tea enterprises and buyers intend to sign more than 2 tea sales agreements, with a sales amount of more than <> million yuan.
In recent years, many tea merchants in Lingyun County have actively opened up various sales channels, and exported green tea, black tea and white tea to Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia. The development of Lingyun tea industry has also attracted many people to return to their hometowns to start businesses. Li Dongyun, who graduated from university in 2019, worked in Nanning, and was optimistic about the business opportunities in the tea industry, he returned to Lingyun County in 2020 and founded a tea industry co., LTD., which contracted more than 3000,3000 mu of local tea gardens for management, processing and sales, and achieved an output value of nearly 100 million yuan last year. "At most, our company employs nearly <> people in the village." Li Dongyun said that this year will continue to expand the scale of tea production, transform and upgrade processing workshops, take the initiative to dock foreign trade matters with Southeast Asian countries, and strive to realize tea out of the country as soon as possible. (End)