According to the survey, some tea picking machines are ready in the tea area. The spring tea picking time in 2023 is expected to start from mid-to-early March and last until early May. The purchase price of leaves (tea green) has increased compared with last year. The price range of different types of fresh leaves such as single bud, one bud and one leaf, one bud and two leaves, junior college tea, and CTC red crushed tea fresh leaves ranges from 3 to 100 yuan .
Feedback from the surveyed enterprises indicated that on the basis of their own tea garden machine bases, they will also actively purchase fresh leaves from local tea farmers, and cooperate with the regional tea authorities in managing and picking spring tea, and the purchase will proceed.
In the spring tea survey last year, we mentioned the problems of labor shortage and rising costs during the spring tea harvesting period. During the survey, Lincang also had these problems, and the surveyed places shared their solutions in terms of related problems.
Feedback from surveyed enterprises shows that due to the impact of the epidemic, large inventory backlogs and difficulties in capital recovery have brought severe challenges to enterprises. In addition, factors such as rising labor costs and fresh leaf purchase prices have further increased the cost of tea picking and processing. Yunnan Shuangjiang Mengku Tea The limited liability company stated that the production cost of Pu’er tea has come to 150-200 yuan/kg.
At the same time, under the cooperation model of “company + association + farmers”, during the period of spring tea management and picking, the tea growers and tea gardens are scattered, and the management and control are difficult, which is also one of the reasons for the difficulty in employment.
Relevant units in Fengqing tea area serve the spring tea plucker and purchasing work in the area from financial support, technical training, spring tea index, etc., to ensure the spring tea acquisition funds of the production and operation entities; to improve the management level of the base to ensure the quality of fresh leaves; to guide the production and operation entities to carry out The purchase of spring tea protects the interests of tea farmers.