(Baonghean.vn)- The whole Anh Son district has about 2,500 hectares of raw tea, of which 1,700 hectares have been harvested. Tea trees are bringing in high income, are a sustainable and effective tree for hunger eradication and poverty reduction for the people.
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Currently, Anh Son district has planned to concentrate high-yield tea growing areas such as Hung Son, Long Son, Thanh Son, etc. New tea varieties have also been put into mass cultivation. Currently, the district's tea output reaches more than 20,000 tons/year. |
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Once a month, people harvest a batch of tea. In the photo, the family of Mr. Pham Van Quang, Gia Giang hamlet, Long Son commune, harvests tea by machine. |
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Besides harvesting by machine, people also harvest manually by hand. |
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Each tea picking machine costs about 13 million VND. |
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After harvesting, tea is packed in sacks. |
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Then transported from the top of the hill to the foot of the hill. |
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And transport to the centralized collection point. |
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Currently, the selling price of tea ranges from 3,700 - 4,100 VND/kg of fresh tea. In the photo, workers at Anh Son black tea factory import tea for the factory. |
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With stable prices and productivity, each tea growing household in Anh Son earns tens, even hundreds of millions of dong each year. Anh Son district has set a target of planting 200 hectares of new tea each year. However, Mr. Nguyen Cong The, Head of the district's Agriculture Department, affirmed that the newly planted area always exceeds the target. People are very excited to develop this highly effective industrial crop. This is considered a sustainable poverty-reducing industrial crop in Anh Son district, along with sugarcane and rubber. |
Nguyen Khoa - Dao Tuan