Traditionally, Chinese high-value tea made from the very first tea sprouts in Spring that should be picked before the Qingming Festival, which falls on April 5 this year. Recently, the Spring harvest season for tea has come across Guangdong.
Baitang Town in Luobo County, Huizhou is famous as one of the top ten tea hometowns in Guangdong Province, highlighting a picking area of spring teas of 16.7 square kilometers. This year, more than 20,000 tea workers are expected to be engaged in the production of spring tea.
"We conduct under-forest economy, and , to be specific, that means we plant tea trees around other tree bushes in the forests. Since the back of the tea trees and the shady side of tree bushes can better retain water, we can plant some medical materials in these places to make full use of every inch of lands and to enhance the actual income of the mountainous area," said a tea worker from a tea plantation in Huizhou. In the coming period, this tea plantation plans to cooperate with South China Agricultural University to establish a comprehensive tea garden integrating teas, trees and medical materials. Covering an area of 400,000 square meters, the tea garden will further make full use of the lands and work with local farmers to increase their incomes and to revitalize the rural development.
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Currently, Baitang Town is planning to build a comprehensive demonstration base integrating an agricultural product processing center, a farmer training center, an e-commerce logistics center, a tea industry distribution center and an industry incubation center. In the meantime, through the integration of farmers' organizations and tea-based professional cooperatives, Baitang Town is carrying out standardized planting and harvesting to enhance the output value of the local tea industry comprehensively.
