The northern province of Thai Nguyen is now home to 22,000 ha of tea plantations, with Tan Cuong tea accounting for around 30 percent. The province is now working hard to preserve and improve this kind of tea plant, which have been grown for 70 years, towards producing high quality tea leaves.
Tan Cuong tea hill in Thai Nguyen province (Photo: chebuptancuong.com)
Thai Nguyen (VNA) - The northernprovince of Thai Nguyen is now home to 22,000 ha of tea plantations, with TanCuong tea accounting for around 30 percent. The province is now working hard topreserve and improve this kind of tea plant, which have been grown for 70years, towards producing high quality tea leaves.
While most tea bush varieties that have been around for 50-70 years have beenreplaced by hybrid species in many other households, the Tan Cuong midlands teacooperative insists on preserving and even expanding the growing area of the ancienttea.
Nguyen Thanh Duong, Director of the Tan Cuong tea cooperative said he has a passion for tea farming and wants topreserve the original aromatic flavour of Tan Cuong tea.
Tan Cuong commune is known as a tea cradle in Thai Nguyen province with biggestarea of tea plantations in the province. After 20-70 years of growing the crop,a large proportion of tea bushes have deteriorated with low yield. Since 2015,several projects have been implemented to preserve and improve the yield of TanCuong tea.
Pham Tien Sy, Chairman of the Tan Cuong commune People’s Committee in ThaiNguyen city said “the projects’ purpose is to maintain the trademark of localtea bushes. On the other hand, they also aim to combine them with other kindsof tea plants to diversify tea products”.
Midland tea now accounts for around one third in the total area of tea plantationsin Thai Nguyen province. The preservation of midland tea is necessary toconserve the traditional tea flavour, which has been loved by generations of hotbeverage consumers.-VNA
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Tan Cuong tea hill in Thai Nguyen province
