Fresh tea bud output in Nghe An is expected to reach 130,000 tons.

(Baonghean.vn) – In 2015, Nghe An's fresh tea bud output reached over 67 thousand tons, striving to increase that number to 130 thousand tons by 2020.

With an area of ​​over 4,200 hectares, Thanh Chuong is the province's tea granary. After two "catastrophes" of heat in mid-2015 and cold snaps at the beginning of this year, spring tea yield was low, about 3 - 3.5 tons/ha. Currently, throughout the tea regions along Ho Chi Minh road, farmers in tea-growing communes such as Hanh Lam, Thanh An, Thanh Thuy, Thanh Mai... are harvesting the first tea crop of the year.

Currently, the tea area of ​​the whole province reaches 7,500 hectares (of which the business area is 5,910 hectares), the output of fresh tea buds in 2015 is about 67,374 tons, the processed output reaches 13,000 tons of various types of dried tea buds.

Localities have invested in applying clean tea production processes, using high-yield, good-quality varieties for new planting and replanting. Industrial tea areas use LDP1, LDP2 varieties... In the Ky Son highlands, Tuyet Shan tea variety (LD 97) is used. At the same time, investing in mechanization in production stages; applying VietGAP processes, QCVN 132: 2013/BNNPTNN in harvesting, transporting, and preserving tea to reduce quality loss.

Many large tea growing areas were formed in Nghe An.

The province's policy is to strive for Nghe An tea area to reach 10,700 hectares by 2020, with fresh tea bud productivity reaching about 130 quintals/ha, output reaching 130 thousand tons of fresh buds, and processing about 24 thousand tons of various types of dry tea. By 2030, the orientation is to continue stabilizing the area, focusing on applying high technology in production to achieve productivity of 160 quintals/ha, output reaching 160 thousand tons of fresh buds, and processing reaching 32 thousand tons of dry tea buds.

By 2020, the processing capacity must reach 700 tons/day (currently, the capacity of facilities meeting the requirements on equipment technology and food safety is about 329 tons/day), prioritizing black tea processing technology to increase the proportion of black tea to about 40% in the tea product structure of Nghe An.

Phu Huong

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