Building new countryside from tea growing model

If more than ten years ago, the agricultural economy of the people in Tang Loong commune was mainly the cultivation of food crops to serve the needs of family life, today, in the fields and hills in this locality, tea plants are mainly grown, creating a vast green area of tens and hundreds of hectares.

The family of Mrs. Ban Thi Van, in Nhuan 1 village, has more than 1 hectare of tea plantation, each year producing 7-8 tons of fresh tea, bringing in a stable income of more than 50 million VND. Thanks to that, the family's economy is more stable, and their material and spiritual life is much better than before.

Mrs. Ban Thi Van shared: “Nowadays, almost every household in the village grows tea, small households have half a hectare, large households have several hectares. Growing tea brings a stable source of income, and the output is also very favorable. Once the harvest is finished, people come to buy it, so people are very assured and do not have to worry about anything. Just focus on taking good care of it and developing it for high productivity.”

People in Tang Loong commune also apply technical processes to produce clean and safe tea according to the instructions of local agricultural extension officers, thanks to which the local clean tea brand is increasingly spreading in the market.

Along with that, there is the attention and support of local Party committees and authorities, regularly directing technical departments to the area to support, train and improve techniques, skills in planting and caring for tea trees in the direction of using organic fertilizers, minimizing inorganic fertilizers and spraying chemical pesticides to prevent pests and diseases, ensuring that tea trees grow and develop well. At the same time, instructing people to prevent fungal diseases of tea trees after pruning, and using fertilizers to supplement nutrients for tea trees. Thanks to that, the productivity and output of tea in Tang Loong commune are increasingly improved.

To link tea cultivation production according to a unified technical process, currently tea-producing households in Tang Loong commune have also established the "Organic Clean Tea Growing and Care Association" so that people can grasp information, access in-depth training courses on organic growing and care techniques, and apply more systematic science and technology to production.

Ms. Pham Thi Dan, a member of the Association for organic tea growing and care in Nhuan 1 village, said: "By joining the Association, we expect to receive support and mutual assistance in economic development from the tea tree model in the direction of production linkage, which is the most effective way to ensure consistent quality, reduce input costs and together find stable consumption markets, bringing better income to the family."

Up to now, in the whole area of Tang Loong commune, there are more than 177 hectares of tea, including Lai 1, Lai 2 and Bat Tien tea varieties. Tang Loong Commune People's Committee has identified tea as one of the key crops with value, providing stable and regular products, ensuring income for people, playing an important role in the economic development movement to build new rural areas in the locality.

Therefore, in the coming time, Tang Loong commune will continue to promote propaganda and mobilize people to strongly develop the tea growing model, especially applying technology to production to thereby improve productivity, quality, efficiency, and develop sustainable production relations associated with product processing and consumption.

Thanks to the consistent policies of the local government and the consensus of the people, the tea output of Tang Loong commune has continuously grown impressively in recent years. In 2024, the output of fresh tea buds of Tang Loong supplied to processing factories reached nearly 1,600 tons (an increase of 200 tons compared to 2023), with a revenue of over 10 billion VND. To help farmers get rich from tea, Tang Loong commune is continuing to restructure the tea industry towards improving productivity, quality, efficiency, linking the development of raw material areas with processing and consumption of products, contributing to improving people's lives.

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