6 November, 2020
Agricultural Extension Forum @ Agriculture "Development of organic production of safe tea"
Day 29-30/10/2020, in Thai Nguyen City, The National Agricultural Extension Center coordinates with the Department of Agriculture & Thai Nguyen Rural Development held the Agricultural Extension Forum @ Agriculture with the theme "Safe tea production in an organic way".
Attend more forums 200 Representative of the Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute, Center for Tea Research and Development, Thai Nguyen University, Vietnam Tea Association; representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agricultural Extension Center, typical tea farmers in Tuyen Quang provinces, Phu-Tho, Yen Bai, Lao Cai, Thai Nguyen with several cooperatives, cooperation group, tea production and trading enterprises in Thai Nguyen province.
According to the report of Department of Crop Production, by year end 2019, The tea area in the country is about 123 thousand hectares. Although the planted area tends to decrease, the tea plantation area is always stable with 115 thousand hectares and productivity soared. Annual tea yield 2019 reach 94,8 quintal / ha, the highest ever. Tea yield stage 2011 – 2019 Increased from 878 thousand more 1,02 million tons. Some provinces have a rapid growth in productivity and output such as Thai Nguyen, Tuyen Quang, Nghe An, Ha Tinh and Phu Tho. Achieving that is thanks to the local expansion of production areas in the direction of safety and integration, guaranteed output, help increase income so growers feel secure in production. In the province of Thai Nguyen was formed 186 chain of tea production to ensure food safety and hygiene, with the tea area under the chain link above 10% Tea business area. In Tuyen Quang province, the area of tea that has taken the chain link is above 1.500 he has, reach on 18% tea area of the whole province. In the provinces of Phu Tho, Son La, Nghe An has also formed many linkages between businesses and tea growers through product supply chains, Signing an association contract to purchase fresh bud tea.
Standing in front of reality today, Consumers are increasingly strict in choosing safe products, Having a clear origin with an environmentally friendly production process, the shift to organic agriculture, No chemicals is the inevitable direction. And the tea industry is not out of that general trend.
Mr. Pham Van Sy – Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said: In Thai Nguyen, Most of the tea area is produced in the direction of applying safe tea production processes. Many cooperatives have gradually shifted towards organic tea production. Up to now, the tea area applied for organic production has reached about 110ha out of a total of nearly 22,400ha of tea in the province.
Speaking at the forum, Mr. Le Quoc Thanh – Director of the National Center for Agricultural Extension, said: To speed up propaganda, popularize the application of technical advances, new technology in tea production to improve productivity, the quality of tea products meets safety standards; build organizational models for production links, Product consumption contributes to stabilizing output for the product, to create concentrated commodity tea production areas to meet the increasing demand of the market, improve tea production efficiency, from year 2017, National Agricultural Extension Center (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) has implemented many central agricultural extension projects on safe tea production, value chain links. These models are being shown very effectively in most localities.
A typical example is the project "Building a model of safe tea production to increase added value and sustainable development in the period of 2017-2019" implemented by Thai Nguyen Center for Agricultural Promotion. 06 the provincial: Thai Nguyen, Phu-Tho, Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang and Ha Tinh have built 06 production management organization model, business with 21 Group group participates in product production and consumption with the participation of 06 enterprise. The project has contributed to increased productivity, quality tea buds, Stable output for the product, increase income for people who produce from 26 – 80 million / ha (depending on the locality) compared with production outside the model.
Project "Developing new tea seed growing models, safe tea intensification and processing chain linkages, material consumption in the period of 2018-2020 ”is implemented by the Institute of Science and Technology of Agriculture and Forestry in the Northern mountainous region 6 the provincial: Phu-Tho, Tuyen Quang, Yen Bai, Son La, Lai Chau and Nghe An. The project has built 06 safe tea intensive farming model, total area size 110 ha / year, average tea yield is from 12,36-18,5 tons / ha, increase 27% compared with production outside the model, tea bud products meet the quality standards of safe tea.
At the forum, some cooperatives, production cooperation groups, Typical tea processing also discusses some production constraints, Safe tea processing, Organic tea today. Delegates recommended the authorities to facilitate the cooperatives, Safe tea production cooperative groups participate in trade promotion programs to connect supply and demand to build a chain model, support to transfer science and technology, to plan organic tea production areas as a basis for expanding the area of organic intensive tea; at the same time capital support, Credit access with preferential interest rates for businesses, the cooperative expands the area of safe tea production in an organic direction.
In the forum's program, day afternoon 29/10/2020 The delegates visited the organic model of safe tea production and tea processing facilities at Hao Dat Tea Cooperative., Tan Cuong commune, TP. Thai Nguyen, Thai Nguyen province.
Source: Ministry of Agriculture&PTNT
