Mr. Do Thanh Long in Phu An 1 village, Phu Nhuan commune (Bao Thang district, Lao Cai) has more than 3ha of Lai 2 tea (LDH2), one of the few households with the largest tea growing area in the village. Three years ago, he contracted the entire tea area of some other households. After that, he boldly applied scientific and technical advances in tea planting, care and processing.
Up to now, his family's tea products are of high quality. This year, his family is estimated to collect about 70 tons of tea, with the selling price of 6,000 VND/kg of fresh tea buds, he earned about 420 million VND. After deducting the cost of labor, fertilizer, etc., his family got 300 million VND.
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Mr. Tran Quang Chuong, Chairman of Phu Nhuan Commune People's Committee, said that the whole commune has 177ha of tea, mainly tea for trading, including varieties of Lai 1, Lai 2 and Bat Tien, which are cared for according to strict regulations on tea production. safe tea production. For many years now, tea has become a key crop to help many households in the commune escape poverty, improve income, and stabilize their lives.
Tea in the commune is estimated to have a yield of 4-5 tons/ha, each year the whole commune produces about 900 tons of fresh bud tea, worth over 5 billion VND. Tea has really played a big role in creating jobs, eradicating hunger and reducing poverty, helping to restructure the agricultural economy, forming sustainable raw material areas...
In Phong Hai town (Bao Thang district), Mr. Cu Seo Muoi in Ai Nam village was the first Mong here to bring tea trees to plant. Currently, his family has about 1.3 hectares of Bat Tien tea, regularly collecting about 6 quintals per month. With the current selling price of about 10 thousand VND/kg, his family earns about 6 million VND from selling fresh tea every month.
Mr. Cu Seo Muoi said that every year, the family has a revenue of about 36 million VND from tea. While tea plants do not need to invest too much, each year weeding 2 times and fertilizing. Ai Nam village is 1,000m above sea level, so the tea here is delicious and has a higher price than other places.
Mr. Do Hong Quan, Head of Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Bao Thang district, said that over the past time, the district has continued to pay attention to implementing the program of intensive farming, developing high-quality tea areas associated with processing and building Bao tea brand. Win.
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Along with focusing on improving tea quality, the district will organize the implementation of new planting, replacing old tea areas with technically advanced varieties with high yield, quality and efficiency.
Thereby, forming concentrated material areas in localities, promoting production linkages with enterprises and processing facilities in the area, supporting processing units to build raw material areas. Thereby, both tea growers and production units can stabilize output with guaranteed tea quality.
The specialized agency of Bao Thang district will also focus on guiding tea growers to apply technical advances, invest in intensive farming to increase productivity and output of fresh tea buds. In particular, focusing on state management, improving production quality and efficiency to meet food hygiene and safety standards, and raising people's incomes.
According to newspaper: Noingnghiep.vn