Planting 2000 hectares of abandoned tea garden

Planting 2000 hectares of abandoned tea garden

The head of the Tea Organization announced the re-establishment of 2,000 hectares of abandoned tea gardens in previous years and the entry into the reproduction cycle.

Mohammad Wali Roozbehan said today – Sunday – at the meeting of the purchasing and financial supervisors of the country’s tea organization: Last year, with the measures taken by the government and the support of all officials in the field of tea, very good conditions were created and the tea industry flourished again. Are.

He continued: timely announcement of the guaranteed purchase price of green tea leaves in March of last year and its 21% increase compared to the previous crop year, payment of facilities to the crop and successful implementation of the crop plan and the establishment of a fund to support the country’s tea industry with approx. 40 billion Tomans and the participation of 25 thousand and 500 tea farmers in its membership were among the measures taken to support the country’s tea industry.

The head of the country’s tea organization emphasized: When we believe that our tea is 100% quality, free of any toxins and also organic, and other countries are looking for healthy tea, so we must provide not only for the country but also tea for other countries and in fact exports. Also provide.

Roozbehan added: We have very good raw materials with good measures that we saw from tea farmers, including pruning orchards, plowing and timely fertilization, as well as suitable rainfall in the current crop year, and the policy of the Tea Organization is to improve the quality of tea production for this year.

50,000 tea farming families, 20,000 hectares of tea gardens and 160 tea making units in Gilan and Mazandaran provinces are active in the field of tea industry.