(Baonghean.vn) - Hung Son is a commune located on the left bank of the Lam River in Anh Son district. The entire commune has nearly 500 hectares of tea plantations, with an annual production of nearly 5,000 tons of tea leaves, generating tens of billions of VND in revenue each year. Thanks to tea cultivation, Hung Son has risen to the top in the district's economic development.
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Tea cultivation in Hung Son is currently the main crop of the locality, helping people develop a sustainable economy. While in 2001, Hung Son commune only had 3 households planting tea on a trial basis with an area of just over 1.5 hectares, now the total area in the commune is over 500 hectares. The production is nearly 5,000 tons per year. Each hectare yields an income of 70-80 million VND. |
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| The tea in Hung Son is mostly hand-picked. |
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| According to Ms. Vo Thi Nu, tea picked by hand tastes much better than tea picked by machine. |
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| The tea leaves are hand-picked to meet the "1 bud, 2 leaves" standard. The current price of tea is 280,000 VND per quintal. |
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| Besides supplying tea to Hung Son Tea Factory, local residents can also supply tea to families operating mini-processing ovens in the commune. It is known that approximately 30% of households supply tea to these mini-processing ovens. |
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Hung Son, the "capital" of industrial tea production, is increasingly creating its own unique appeal and high economic value thanks to its professional intensive farming investment and dynamic processing aimed at diversifying post-harvest tea leaf products. |
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| The Party Committee and local government of the commune have proactively built several high-quality tea processing facilities.It is named "Tea Mac Dien". |
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| The tea leaves after drying. |
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| To ensure the availability of clean tea seedlings, Hung Son has implemented a plan to establish nurseries to proactively secure a supply of seedlings. |
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| The tea plantation, over 10 years old, belonging to Mr. Nguyen Thuc Thanh's family in Hamlet 5, is a model of cultivation following the VietGAP program – this is also the long-term direction of Hung Son.The aim is to gradually establish the "Tea Mac Dien" brand. |
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