These days, along the tea hills of Anh Son district are all green. On the hill, families were busy gathering and transporting for collecting points. Nguyen Thi Lien's family in Nhan Tien hamlet, Cam Son commune has been planting tea raw materials for over 10 years, although the tea area has just over 2 hectares, but thanks to investment in renovating and replacing new planting with branch-grown tea varieties For high quality yield, plus fertilizer investment, this year's tea production has increased significantly.
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Ms. Lien shared: According to the seasonal calendar, at the end of November in the lunar calendar of the previous year, her family started cutting down branches to create care trees. Therefore, the spring tea harvest is especially concerned by Mrs. Lien's family and most of the tea growers, because caring at this stage helps the tea absorb the best nutrients to develop the tree, giving high productivity. whole year. The first batch of spring tea her family harvested 9 tons of fresh bud tea. At this time, the average price of fresh bud tea is VND 3,500 / kg, giving her family over VND 25 million.
Hoang Van Tuyen's family in Nhan Tai village, Cam Son commune is also focusing on manpower to harvest the first batch of tea. Mr. Tuyen excitedly shared: Last year the prolonged drought caused many tea areas to die, the survivors could not harvest, this time in Anh Son area, the weather was quite favorable for tea plants to grow. Therefore, in the first harvest of spring tea, people are very excited.
High buds, high-productivity picking machines, each working team of a picking machine needs at least 5- 6 people, of which, 2 people keep the machine going along both sides of the tea bed, one person behind can hold a tea bag. attached to the machine, 2 collectors, brought tea and packaging and transport. After picking tea, I could import it right away, so I was excited. Tuyen reckons, his family has collected more than 5 tons of fresh bud tea, the current price of spring tea is 3,500 VND / kg for his family to collect 17 million VND without deducting expenses.
Favorable weather, these days, people grow tea in Con Cuong, Thanh Chuong also excited to collect tea. Phan Thi Hanh's family in hamlet 2/9, Bong Khe commune, Con Cuong district currently has 4 sao of tea in the harvest period. Ms. Hanh said: In early December of the lunar calendar, the family conducted care to revive and sprout tea when Spring comes. After about 1 month tea will buds. This is an important litter of tea, to urgently harvest care to catch the warm spring sunshine, the faster and stronger the tea grows.
Mr. Phan Dinh Hue, also in 2/9 village, Bong Khe commune, also said: The family planted 3 sao of tea, currently concentrating manpower and material resources to harvest spring tea crop. The price of tea makes the family excited, 7-year-harvest for each year, compared to other crops, tea cultivation has a higher and more stable income.
These days, going along Ho Chi Minh road through Thanh Chuong district, it is easy to catch sight of people picking tea. In addition to the main labor force of tea-growing households, the busy season has also attracted a large number of laborers from the non-tea-growing communes to work as hired laborers. The average price at this time is 4.2 million VND / quintal (4,200 VND / kg), higher than the previous year so people are very excited.
Mr. Nguyen Manh Thang – Chairman of Bong Khe Commune People's Committee, Con Cuong district said: The locality has more than 100 hectares of tea. Thanks to the development of tea tree, not only has escaped poverty but people's living standard has been improved, many households are also legally rich. Meanwhile, the whole district of Anh Son has 2,255 hectares, more than 1,700 hectares have been harvested, concentrated in many communes such as Hung Son, Long Son, Dinh Son and Cam Son … Average of tea trees per year for collection 7-stage plan, each group spaced 30 – 45 days apart, giving people a net interest of 70 – 80 million VND / ha / year.
The spring tea harvest is of particular interest to tea growers because caring at this stage helps the tea absorb the best nutrients to grow the trees, giving higher yields at subsequent harvests.
Not only collecting to import, in some communes of Thanh Chuong the atmosphere worked very urgently in tea factories along Ho Chi Minh road. Currently, these factories are purchasing, running at full capacity, making tea prices quite stable, making farmers profitable.
According to statistics, the province has 8,000 hectares of industrial tea. Tea tree is a hunger eradication and poverty reduction crop, a key crop of tens of thousands of households in mountainous districts. Along with collecting and nourishing nutrition for early spring tea hill, many farmers in Thanh Chuong, Anh Son and Con Cuong are also boldly investing, expanding the area, focusing on the quality of tea according to clean standards. , safe…
According to Nghe An newspaper
