Innovating "Tea Forest and Fruit" Compound Management in Liping County to Release the Benefits of Family Farms

In recent years, Liping County has focused on the cultivation of new agricultural business entities, taking Tianyi Family Farm in Gaotun Street as a model, innovating the "tea and fruit forest" compound business model, supporting infrastructure, implementing variety interplanting and adjusting business methods, effectively solving the problems of extensive farm management, single model and low efficiency, and boosting industrial upgrading and efficiency.
First, supporting infrastructure to solve the problem of extensive management. According to the needs of seasonal harvesting, new sidewalks, water supply pools, aqueducts, sheds, workshops, leisure farms and other facilities will be built in the park to improve the level of farm management and protection, effectively manage and protect the tea trees planted in the park, reduce operating losses, and lay a solid foundation for the compound planting of "tea and fruit forests". At present, 6 kilometers of production access road, 600 cubic meters of irrigation pool and 4 kilometers of irrigation aqueduct have been built in the tea garden, which basically meets the needs of compound planting.
Second, interplanting forest and fruit trees to solve the problem of single business model. Explore the implementation of the "tea forest fruit" compound management model, make use of the biological characteristics of tea trees and the principle of symbiosis with other economic tree species, interplant the forest fruit varieties such as Taxus chinensis, camellia oleifera, blueberry and Myrica rubra between tea terraces and the edge of tea garden, improve the land utilization rate, enrich the tea garden ecosystem, improve the tea quality, achieve harvest all year round, and promote the "double growth" of agricultural output and labor demand. At present, the annual output of dry tea on the farm is more than 50 tons, and there are more than 10 kinds of forest and fruit trees, which has driven more than 500 farmers around to achieve employment at home, and the average household income has increased by more than 3,000 yuan.
The third is to strengthen the cultivation of the main body and solve the problem of low management level. Encourage and guide multi-enterprise cooperation and promote resource sharing and technology sharing. At the same time, by providing technical guidance, tea green purchase, processing and sales and other services in the whole industry chain, the farm drives the masses to grow tea, achieving a win-win situation for enterprises and farmers. Up to now, there are more than 10 cooperative tea enterprises between surrounding tea enterprises and Tianyi Family Farm, involving more than 3,000 mu of tea garden area; Drive 38 tea farmers to plant 278 mu of tea, and the annual income of the masses reaches more than 830,000 yuan.
The fourth is the integration and development of tea tourism to solve the problem of low operating efficiency. Relying on the resource advantages of "tea and fruit forest" garden, we will build a recreational tourism and leisure sightseeing experience park, and develop formats such as garden viewing, tea and fruit picking, and processing experience of special agricultural products, so as to promote the integrated development of tea tourism, release consumption potential and stimulate the vitality of family farms. Since 2023, Tianyi Farm has received more than 4,000 tourists and earned more than 50,000 yuan. (Liping County People’s Government Network)
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