Grow tea for ten years and get rich with the villagers

Walking into Zhouyang Village, Nayang Town, Hengxian County, green tea trees are covered with hills, and planting tea is one of the main sources of income for the villagers. The villagers all said that without the long-term persistence of Su Shiyao, a village cadre, tea planting in Zhouyang Village would have been abandoned. Su Shiyao's ten years of persistence and innovation have enabled the tea industry in the village to form an one-stop service from variety selection, planting, management, picking, processing to sales, ensuring the development of tea cultivation in the village and enabling most of the villagers to have a stable income. the poor households and the poor population in the village have been decreasing due to tea cultivation.

Protect the cultivation of tea for ten years

Recently, the reporter came to Su Shiyao's tea garden and saw that the workers were busy picking the last batch of autumn tea leaves, and then the tea trees were about to go into hibernation. At this time, can the tea people have a rest? Su Shiyao said, "Tea trees are in hibernation and tea pickers can have a rest." But I can't rest, and then I have to do a lot of work for the renewal of tea varieties. "

Su Shiyao and his wife have lived in a concrete brick house next to the tea garden for a long time. Su Shiyao said, "We haven't gone back to the new house in the county for a long time." The wife also has a problem with it! However, in order to achieve effective management of tea, we have to keep company with tea. " Su Shiyao has 19 years of experience in growing tea, and he has operated a tea garden for more than 10 years. Su Shiyao's tea planting area in Zhouyang Village has reached more than 200 mu. He also has a tea garden of more than 100 mu in Qingdao, Shandong Province, and more than 300 mu of tea garden in Ridong County, Hainan Province. he not only grows tea himself, but also goes through the links of acquisition, processing, and sales to ensure that the tea planted by the villagers does not worry about the market.

Lead farmers to become rich

Under Su Shiyao's meticulous management, his tea garden has become a village demonstration base. at present, villagers have grown tea to more than 2000 mu. Almost every household in Zhouyang Village has grown tea, and the originally abandoned hills and mountains have become a "treasure land." tea cultivation has also become one of the important sources of local economy.

Su Shiyao said that one mu of tea garden can bring farmers an income of more than 2500 yuan a year, and the income will be even higher if the tea varieties are selected well. At present, most of the tea grown in the village are old varieties, and the market response is not very good. This is also the problem he has to solve at present.

Planting management is a key issue. At present, Su Shiyao negotiated with some tea growers and asked him to take care of him to achieve large-scale planting and unified management. In this way, not only the labor force is liberated, but also the tea trees can be managed more scientifically. To this end, after consultation with the village committee, he specially set up a well-off tea planting professional cooperative in Hengxian County, allowing tea farmers to participate in the cooperative to jointly develop tea planting, and the cooperative took care of the tea trees of tea farmers. At present, Su Shiyao's tea garden has accepted the transfer of employment from more than 10 poor households in Zhouyang Village, and there are also several poor households from the surrounding villages.

Variety renewal helps get rid of poverty

In order to increase the income of tea farmers, another problem that Su Shiyao has to solve is to renew the varieties of tea. Variety renewal requires experimental planting. Su Shiyao is the leader of local tea cultivation, and the burden of experimental planting falls on him. Su Shiyao says that in the past, when updating varieties, he cultivated and experimented by himself, which took time, effort and money. Now he has changed his method, sharing resources with his peers through the Internet, directly buying tea varieties with mature technology and good market response from other places and coming back for experimental cultivation. After success, it will be purchased in bulk according to the needs of tea farmers and distributed to those tea farmers who need it.

The variety of tea has been updated and the quality of tea has been improved. At present, there are still 100 poor households in Zhouyang Village, and the transfer of employment in Su Shiyao's tea garden has solved the problem of lifting some poor families out of poverty. With the further increase of the income of growing tea, it will bring higher income to more tea farmers and poor households, and fundamentally solve the problem of increasing the income of tea farmers and getting rid of poverty.