"Take tea as a medium, take tea as a friend, compete with competition, and improve energy with competition. On April 12, the 2024 Kaiyang County "Kaiyang Selenium-rich Tea" Cup Skills Competition of "Shangchun Mountain, Hometown of Gongcha, Millennium Inheritance of Selenium-rich Township" was held in Nanlong Township, Kaiyang County.
The purpose of the event is to promote the organic integration of the tea industry and tourism in Kaiyang County, promote the technology of two-hand tea picking, help the industry increase efficiency, carry forward the spirit of craftsmen, inherit the tea-making skills, advocate the concept of healthy tea drinking, create a good atmosphere for the whole people to drink tea, launch the "rich" brand of Kaiyang, enhance the popularity and influence of Kaiyang selenium-rich tea, and help rural revitalization.
"Kaiyang selenium-rich tea" is a national geographical indication protection product, according to historical records, Kaiyang tea has been planted as early as the Song and Yuan dynasties, the Ming and Qing dynasties planting scale continued to expand, the Qing Dynasty was given the name "Nangong tea" by the Qianlong Emperor. For a long time, based on the advantages of ecology and selenium-rich resources, Kaiyang County has vigorously developed an efficient agricultural industry with mountain characteristics dominated by tea, and strived to sing the brand of "Kaiyang Selenium-rich Tea".
"This is located in Kaiyang County, Nanlong Township, Tiankan Village, Lanzhi ecological tea garden planting base has 1,200 acres is our company, from March 20 to the Qingming Festival before a total of 3,800 pounds of tea, are a bud and a leaf of good tea. At the event site, Zhang Chun, chairman of Guizhou Kaiyang Lanzhi Tea Development Co., Ltd., pointed to the tea garden where the contestants were picking and said that Nanlong Township has the characteristics of high altitude, low latitude, cloudy fog and low sunshine, and is one of the ideal areas for tea growth.
Zhang Chun introduced that last year, the company's tea output reached more than 75,000 catties, mainly green tea, black tea, and old white tea varieties, which were mainly sold to the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places in the province. Guizhou Kaiyang Lanzhi Tea Development Co., Ltd. was established in 2008, is a business of selenium-rich organic tea planting, processing, sales, as well as ecological leisure, tourism and other services as one of the enterprises, the tea garden base is located in Tiankan Village, Nanlong Township, Kaiyang County, Guizhou Province.
Since 2008, Nanlong Township, Kaiyang County, has successively introduced 22 tea enterprises such as Lanzhi and Zhelong to settle in the investment and development of the tea industry, mainly planting Fuding Dabai Tea, Longjing 43, Wuniuzao, Qiancha No. 1 and milk white tea (Baiye No. 1), Golden Peony, Jin Guanyin and other tea varieties.
Among them, 7 tea enterprises are engaged in processing and production, and 7 green tea processing production lines, 7 black tea processing production lines, and 2 bulk tea processing production lines have been built, of which 6 have obtained QS certification and 1 has passed the HACCP1400 management system standard certification.
At present, Nanlong Township has developed a total of 29,000 acres of tea gardens, 15,000 acres of tea gardens in the peak production period, and more than 15,000 tons of green tea can be picked every year.
After years of cultivation, Nanlong Township has built 2 tea characteristic villages (Weng Duo Village, Tiankan Village), with 42 local tea technical talents, a total of more than 3,000 mobile tea farmers, and the township can meet the needs of more than 20 large and medium-sized tea enterprises and companies at the same time.
In recent years, Kaiyang has always adhered to the ecological tea, clean tea, and healthy tea, and insisted on the ecological concept throughout the whole process of planting tea, managing tea, making tea, and selling tea, and vigorously promoted the integration of tea tourism.
At present, the tea garden area in the core area of Kaiyang is 92,000 mu, the picking area is 81,000 mu, the annual output of dry hair tea is more than 5,500 tons, and the annual output value is nearly 1.58 billion yuan, driving more than 40,000 farmers to achieve an average annual income increase of 12,000 yuan.
Next, Kaiyang will continue to rely on the public brand of "Kaiyang Selenium-rich Tea", dig deep into the "tribute tea culture", continue to improve the quality of tea, strengthen the tea brand, expand the tea market, share the tea dividend, make the area into output, make the output value into output, and make the output value into benefits, promote the organic integration of the tea industry and tourism in Kaiyang County, and take the road of integrated development of tea, culture and tourism.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Zhang Xiuyun
Edited by Li Manyu
Second instance Yu Changxu
Third trial Wang Shuyi