Hai Ha tea is delicious and flavorful thanks to organic cultivation.

QUANG NINH According to some tea growers in Hai Ha district, thanks to organic production, Hai Ha tea has a more delicious and rich flavor than before.

QUANG NINH According to some tea growers in Hai Ha district, thanks to organic production, Hai Ha tea has a more delicious and rich flavor than before.

Hai Ha district currently has about 800 hectares of tea plantations and is shifting strongly to organic production. Photo: Nguyen Thanh.

For many years, tea has become a key crop, bringing high economic efficiency to people in Hai Ha district (Quang Ninh). Many households have applied technical advances in tea production and processing, thereby contributing to the formation and development of many prestigious tea brands of Hai Ha with high quality, ensuring food safety and hygiene. However, tea trees in Hai Ha once faced the risk of extinction.

During the period 2014 - 2016, hundreds of tons of Hai Ha dry tea were rejected by the Taiwanese market after applying standards for fipronil residue in finished tea not exceeding 0.002 ppm. This is the standard applied to organically produced tea. One of the main markets "closed", Hai Ha tea trees were in trouble at that time, many tea hills were abandoned, with no one to harvest them.

Learning from the increasingly tightening barrier on pesticide residues, some businesses and people have decided to switch from traditional farming to organic farming so that Hai Ha tea is not only delicious but also meets market demands.

In 2021, on an area of ​​15 hectares, Viet Tu Construction and Trading Investment Company Limited (Hai Ha district) built a high-quality tea area and created a brand for Duong Hoa tea products. Accordingly, the Company applies organic production processes, regularly inspected from soil samples, water samples, and natural planting and harvesting. The Company's tea area ensures the strictest standards of Taiwan and Japan.

In village 7, Quang Long commune (Hai Ha district), Mr. Le Van Thang and local people established a high-quality Ngoc Thuy tea production group with an area of ​​10 hectares. Mr. Thang applied care methods according to safe, organic processes.

Hai Ha tea is gradually improving its quality thanks to organic cultivation. Photo: Nguyen Thanh.

Accordingly, all fertilizers and pesticides for tea are carefully selected by his family to be good for plants, and at the same time not affect the health of consumers. In particular, Mr. Thang chooses organic fertilizers and biological pesticides provided by the District Agricultural Technical Service Center. Therefore, the production process minimizes the impact on the ecological environment, improves soil quality, helps tea plants to be healthy, free of pests and diseases, produces quality products, and ensures food safety and hygiene.

Mr. Le Van Thang shared: “Our tea production team has been producing tea in a safe manner for many years, and now we have taken it a step further towards organic production, completely avoiding the use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides. In addition, organically grown tea is more delicious and flavorful.”

Currently, Quang Long Commune has implemented many measures to improve productivity and quality of tea, at the same time building a brand and management system from production, processing to consumption of tea, applying tea production process according to VietGAP standards to ensure food hygiene and safety, ensuring safety for producers as well as consumers and the ecological environment.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Liem, Vice Chairman of Hai Ha District People's Committee, said that the district has implemented a comprehensive project to develop high-quality concentrated tea areas. Accordingly, it has supported investment models for intensive tea business areas according to VietGAP procedures; allocated resources to repair, renovate and upgrade factories; transferred technical processes and processing technology; encouraged organic cultivation with new tea varieties with high productivity, high quality, and good resistance to pests and diseases such as Ngoc Thuy and Huong Bac Son tea varieties.

Up to now, the tea growing area of ​​Hai Ha district is about 800 hectares with more than 2,000 households participating in tea production; the average annual fresh tea output reaches 6,300 tons, supplying 7 main domestic processing facilities and exporting to the Chinese market and Middle Eastern countries.

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