Qimen, Anhui, China: Prospering the town with tea, make farmers rich with tea

Wang Qingfeng, a tea maker from Jiangxi, is frying black tea. Photo by Liu Honghe, China News Network, Huangshan, April 4 (Liu Honghe) The tea industry is one of the ten leading industries of agricultural industrialization in Anhui Province. During the Qingming Festival, major tea owners in Anhui The production areas have also entered the peak picking period. On April 3, in the core production area of Qimei black tea in Ruokeng Township, Qimen County, Huangshan City, dozens of tea farmers were busy in the "village-enterprise cooperation" tea garden. The bamboo baskets were scattered among the tea trees, with both hands flying up and down, skillfully harvesting pieces of spring tea. “Last year, each of our tea farmers earned almost 15,000 yuan per tea season.” Lu, a villager in Hongqi Village, Qimen County, Huangshan City Mingxiu was busy with the work she started, while introducing, “Because the tea season comes earlier this year and the rain is plentiful, the income this year may ...