Seventy-year-old farmer Zhao Shengchi has won the national patent to cultivate sweet tea seedlings.

Zhao Shengchi, 72, is an ordinary farmer in Shushan Village, Chigu Township, Anfu County. More than 10 years ago, he rescued and protected the remaining 2000 wild rare woody plant "Duosuike" sweet tea trees. After more than 3 years of research and cutting trial, sweet tea seedlings were successfully cultivated, which not only won the national patent, but also conquered the worldwide technical problems, and became a local celebrity for a time. A few days ago, he successfully cultivated sweet tea seedlings with a survival rate of 80%, providing material materials for the development of new tea sources.

Devote oneself to studying and cultivating sweet tea seedlings

Zhao Shengchi, who has been engaged in the cultivation of flower seedlings for many years, consulted a large number of data, carefully studied the growth habits of Duosuke, and determined that there was great potential for the development of Duosuke sweet tea market. In Huangtun Village, Chigu Township, there are two multi-spike Ketian tea trees with a height of more than 20 meters and a breast diameter of 1 meters. in 2003, the tea produced by these two trees could be sold for more than 20 yuan per kilogram. "with the approval of the Forestry Bureau, I bought the tree pockets they cut down and planted them in the field as a female parent, and then to develop sweet tea seedlings." Zhao Shengchi told the reporter that it was precisely relying on the female parent of these 2000 sweet tea trees that Zhao Shengchi successfully cultivated sweet tea seedlings through cutting for many years, and identified by forestry technicians that the survival rate of the sweet tea seedlings was as high as 80%. Zhao Shengchi also obtained the national patent as a result. At present, 50,000 Duosuke sweet tea seedlings cultivated by Zhao Shengchi in the greenhouse are growing gratifying.

Successful promotion to drive the masses to become rich

Zhao Shengchi calculated an account to the reporter: "with a yield of 150kg per mu and 50 yuan per jin, excluding the management fee, there should be a net profit of 8000 yuan." Due to the rich resources of Duosuike sweet tea in Chigu Township, good production environment and high enthusiasm of the masses, the industry has broad prospects for development, and Zhao Shengchi is also full of expectations. At present, the area has taken the Duosuke sweet tea industry as a characteristic industry for poverty alleviation, taking Shushan Village as a pilot project, and has also discussed cooperation with a merchant from other places. It is expected that the area of sweet tea will be increased by more than 500 mu this year, and corresponding professional cooperatives will be set up.