Wuleng: Beautiful Spring, Busy Tea Harvesters
Wuleng: Beautiful Spring, Busy Tea Harvesters
New Gansu·Daily Gansu Net Reporter Jin Fengqian, Correspondent Li Zhimou
With fluttering silkworm cocoons, warm spring breezes and the singing of warblers, the spring tea fragrance fills the air. In March, in the scenic village of Biaoku Town, Ma's Mountain and Shuhaoping, tea farmers immersed in the joy of harvest, carrying tea baskets to pick young tea shoots.
Biaoku Town, also known as 'Biaoyu'kou', 'Bixiayou'kou', is located in the south-east of Wuleng, Gansu Province, the southernmost part of Gansu. The ecological environment in the Biaoku Town area is good, pollution-free, with misty clouds and abundant diffused light, producing high-quality 'mountain cloud tea'.
The tea produced in the Biaoku Town area, after brewing, has a yellow-green color, pure fragrance, rich taste, and a strong flavor, which is resistant to multiple brewing.
In recent years, Wuleng has extensively introduced and promoted tea varieties such as Longjing 43, Longjing Long Leaf, Zhongcha 108 and Golden Shoot through asexual propagation, and has established 8 farmer cooperatives in Li Ziba, Ma's Mountain, Shuhaoping villages, and established 8 tea industry leading enterprises with integrated production, processing and sales, driving the development of the masses' tea industry, and farmers' income has increased steadily, and tea income accounts for more than 75% of the income of farmers in key villages and towns, and more than 60% of the income of impoverished households.
Wuleng proposed a development approach of 'building a large tea base, promoting tea technology, strengthening the tea industry, building a tea brand, promoting tea culture, and increasing tea income'. Currently, the county's tea garden area has reached 90,000 acres, with 67,000 acres in production, and tea output value has reached more than 200 million yuan.
The fragrant spring tea is beautiful and charming. Walking through the tea fields bathed in warm spring sunshine, the figures of tea farmers wearing sun hats picking tea are everywhere, one by one fresh green young shoots fall into the tea basket, and everywhere is a pleasing scene of tea harvesting in spring.
