In march, the fragrance of spring wind and fragrance is the perfect time for planting trees. Sanya has unleashed a boom in afforestation, and according to the varieties planted this year, oil and tea plantations have become the preferred option in the sanya region. This year, according to incomplete statistics, 1,000 tea trees were planted in the cliffs and 3,500 in the seagulls。
Why is this year the oily tea tree a fragrance? In economic terms, as a long-lived tree, oil and tea trees, which have benefited from growing for many years at a time, have a steady harvest period of several decades, and the timing of harvests has coincided with the time spent by ordinary people working in agriculture, which is the truly “green oil reservoir” of our southern “iron crop”. The phrase “an acre of oil and tea, married to a daughter-in-law and built a building” is highly summarized and popularly describes the positive contribution that the oil and tea industry can make to rural renewal。
As one of the “six trees” in hainan (coconuts, rubber, beryllies, pears, saffron, oil tea), the oiled tea tree is not only an “economic tree” to boost the population, but also an “eco-tree” “image tree” in hainan。
“the rate of seedling activity now stands at 98 per cent, with the harvest starting last september and the bulk production of oil in the second half of 2024. By that time, the actual harvest would have reached 80 per cent, with a yield of about 100,000 pounds, calculated at 10 pounds per tea tree.” according to zihua lu, general manager of the sanyariah oil and tea plantation base, sanya has promoted the planting of more than 130 acres of oil and tea trees in the zone。
In recent years, sanya has been working on good tea trees. In 2018, after field visits, it was found that the soil climate conditions in the ferocious ecoregion were particularly suitable for the planting of oil and tea trees. In 2019, the base signed a technical cooperation agreement with the linko institute of sanya city, which introduced 10,000 high-quality oil and tea seedlings in november of the same year. In 2023, the sanya city oil and tea industry support implementation programme was issued to encourage the districts to vigorously promote the cultivation of seedlings, the scaling up of plantations, the standardization of production technologies, the industrialization of business models and the socialization of industrial services. Efforts were made to make sanya an important wood-based oil industry base in the southern part of hainan province and to make a positive contribution to the construction of hainan free trade port and to the accelerated modernization of agricultural and rural areas。
Under the programme, a subsidy of $5,000 per acre is awarded for five years after the top map of oil and tea cultivation. Of this amount: $1300 for the first year, $1300 for the second year and $800 for the third to fifth years. Subsidy for seedlings is provided separately, with municipal financial arrangements. In order to address the problems of financing the oil and tea industry and the high cost of financing, and consistent with policy regulations and related systems, farmers, forest companies and customers of related industries engaged in the production of oil and tea seedlings, planting, producing and producing produce can use financial resources such as “golds” to support agricultural products, increase support for the oil and tea industry, improve the quality of financial services in rural areas and channel financial activities to the field。
Sanya is actively promoting good varieties in oil and tea production, as well as increasing the administrative enforcement of the market for oil and tea seedlings, eliminating seedlings and poor seedlings. It is essential that all good varieties be cultivated at the provincial level and that the production of oil and tea farmers be increased。
The relevant head of the municipal forestry service explained that sanya would focus on the construction of a “tea demonstration area” with a view to developing the sanya tea industry in a more visible manner. Actively integrating the development of one or two tri-industry sectors and developing the production and marketing of the oil and tea industry with a view to creating, by 2025, an industrial estate of a chemical-scale oil processing plant or a processing plant in the fully developed region of sanya city, creating a brand of “sia tea oil”, addressing the concerns of the population in growing oil and tea production, and revitalizing the development of the industry。
The regional agricultural and rural directorates are actively exploring models for the development of the oil and tea industry. For example, the agricultural and rural directorate of the world wide area, which is based on the forestry industry, has developed a plan for the development of the oil and tea industry, as appropriate, has solidly promoted the promotion of oil and tea cultivation through government-led and policy-enabling initiatives, has issued two municipal oil and tea cultivation indicators, has delineated to the villages of the region according to the distribution of potential land for oil and tea cultivation, and has actively promoted the “oil and tea + n” complex seed model, has promoted the integration of industry into the development of oil and tea and has solved the problem of landless cultivation by villagers. The regions have adopted oil and tea cultivation as one of the important means of developing the village's collective economy, encouraging and motivating the population to develop the oil and tea industry autonomously, increasing the scale of oil and tea cultivation, increasing the village's collective economic sources of income, developing the village's collective economy and contributing to the revitalization of rural industries. And through this planting festival, the seedlings of the oiled tea trees have risen slightly on the slopes of sanya, “greening up” sanya。
(reporter zhang huiyi)
