Henan: "Organic Tea" Increases Benefits of 100 Mu Tea Garden in Luanchuan County

In Qinglong Mountain, which is 465 meters above sea level in Banshan Village, Maotang Town, Suichuan County, Henan Province, there is a unique tea plantation where the weeds are flourishing and the cobwebs are densely populated with a “wild” state. “The 100-mu tea plantation was a provincial pollution-free tea base. Now we have introduced organic tea management technology and plan to complete the construction of a standard organic tea base this year,” said Wang Jinxi, the person in charge of the base.

In the tea garden, the author saw that the growth of the tea tree basically maintained the "original ecology." According to reports, in the tea plantation, the method of planting pesticides and pesticides was completely abandoned and replaced by artificial capture and biological control; chemical herbicides, synergists and soil conditioners are not used, and fertilizers currently used are not used. It is a separately prepared rapeseed cake. "After implementing the organic tea planting technology, the cost has been reduced. In the past, it cost 3,200 yuan to buy 1 ton of compound fertilizer, and 1 ton of rapeseed cake is only 1,300 yuan," Wang Jinxi said.

Without applying chemical fertilizers, the past problems that have plagued Chasan's land are eliminated, and the production rate of tea is also improved. "The pollution-free tea needs 75 kilograms of dry tea to make 30 kilograms of refined tea, while organic tea can produce 30 kilograms of fine tea as long as 50 kilograms of dried tea." Wang Jinxi said that although the organic tea has a relatively slow growth rate, the yield is also lower than Conventional tea has been reduced, but organic tea gardens can still produce good tea after 10 years, while ordinary tea gardens will cause soil compaction and tea stem content to increase due to factors such as fertilization and spraying, and thus the quality of tea will also plummet.

According to the person in charge of the Agricultural Bureau of Longchuan County, the price of high-quality organic tea is 5,000 yuan per kilogram or more, and even if it is "entry-level" organic tea, the price per kilogram is more than 400 yuan. “From pollution-free management to organic management, we are currently planting 'ecological tea' in the true sense.” Wang Jinxi calculated: 100 acres of tea plantations can produce more than 1,000 kilograms of organic tea at a price of 500 yuan per kilogram. The output value of this piece of tea base will exceed 500,000 yuan, while the output value of 100 acres of pollution-free tea garden is only 180,000 yuan.