"Emei asks Spring": Xiangjinji Village, extra-early Tea

In 2014, the new tea variety "Emei Wenchun" in our city was approved as a high-quality new variety of green tea by the expert group of the Provincial crop Variety approval Committee, and became the fifth provincial-level new tea variety in our city after Mabian Green 1, Chuanmu 28, Chuanmu 217 and so on.

Compared with other tea varieties, the biggest characteristic of "Emei Wenchun" is that it germinates very early, and the picking time is generally about 20 days earlier, which belongs to the extra-early tea variety. This is where the name "Emei Wanchun" comes from.

Now, two years have passed. The new tea variety has long been planted in a large area, with a planting scale of more than 1500 mu in the city. As a variety of extra-early tea, what are the fine characters of "Emei Wanchun"? Recently, the reporter went deep into the "Emei Qichun" tea garden to find out what happened to everyone.

Du Guangyan is the director of the professional cooperative for tea planting in Kaochun. His other identity is the selection and breeding of new tea varieties of "Emei Wenchun". He participated in the process of asexual reproduction and cultivation of "Emei Wenchun". In order to study the suitability, high yield and high quality of the new variety "Emei Wenchun", du Guangyan successively transferred more than 500 mu of barren mountains and planted "Emei Wenchun" tea trees in Jinji Village, Mindong Township, Jianwei County and Lianmeng Village, Shixi Town, respectively. Among them, Mindong Township Jinji Village is the first concentrated area where du Guangyan was introduced and planted.

In October 2013, he concentrated on reclaiming and planting "Emei Wenchun" tea seedlings of nearly 200 mu by transferring the barren hills of Jinji Village. Now, more than two years have passed, and the tea seedlings of that year are green.

Climbing up the concrete steps to the top of the mountain, I can see clumps of thick green tea branches, fresh green leaves and tea buds. After more than two years of growth, under scientific field management, these tea trees have basically formed a fluffy surface, grew well, and showed excellent characters such as good branching ability, tenderness, neatness and consistency, especially their early germination and rapid germination and growth. it's particularly prominent.

According to du Guangyan, although the tea tree in this tea garden has only undergone two deep pruning and has just entered the year of small harvest, the bud head of the tea bud is gratifying. The single bud is large and strong, and there are many bud heads, with an average of about three bud heads per petiole. Most importantly, this tea garden was mined as early as January 20 this year, and it is the earliest in the local tea garden, nearly a month ahead of other tea varieties.

If the sprouting is very early and the picking time is ahead of time, the new tea will be on the market early, and the price of the tea will not be low. According to du Guangyan, just this year, the fresh leaves of his Mingqian tea sold for about 120 yuan per kilogram, and the price of pure single bud was even higher. Such a good market is to seize an "early" opportunity.

The word "early" not only allows du Guangyan to seize the opportunity in the price of tea, but also because of the time lag, tea pickers are also easy to hire, which will not cause a shortage of labor during the centralized picking period. Du Guangyan is quite fond of this.

Now, after nearly 3 months of small picking, this tea garden has brought du Guangyan 250000 yuan of income, so that he has the first taste of sweetness. Due to the good sprouting of this tea variety, he has begun to pick spring tea in the second season after the first season of spring tea. The harvest of a whole season more than other tea varieties has strengthened du Guangyan's confidence in the planting of tea trees in "Emei Wenchun".