Shifo Village, Yuexi County, backed by the main peak of Dabie Mountain, Baimajian, is located in the northeast corner of Anhui Harrier Luoping National Nature Reserve, with an average altitude of more than 800 meters, mild climate, fresh air, clean soil, abundant rainfall, large temperature difference between day and night, suitable for tea growth, with 3,300 acres of organic tea garden, with "Shifoxiang", "Shifocui", "Shencha" and other three and a half national excellent varieties of tea trees, is the birthplace of the state guest tea Yuexi Cuilan.
In recent years, the village has adhered to the leadership of party building, with tea as the medium, relying on tea, developing tea, not only tea, promoting tea, extending tea, and leading the people of the village to increase their income and get rich by means of brand protection, organic management, extension of the industrial chain, and promotion of the value chain, and work hard in organic tea and tea service industry and native products, and the income of tea farmers in Shifo Village has increased from 3,000 yuan per capita in the past 2016 and 10,000 yuan per household to 9,000 yuan per capita and 30,000 yuan per household, which has increased three times. The net income of the village collective economy has increased from 160,000 yuan in 2020 and 350,000 yuan in 2021 to 640,000 yuan in 2022, realizing that the collective economy has doubled from scratch and from existing to strong.
In 2020, the tea industry of Shifo Village was selected as one of the 100 typical industrial assistance in the country, and the high-standard tea garden of Shifosi was listed as a national poverty alleviation demonstration base, and was also selected as the most beautiful tea garden in the country.
Relying on tea, party building leads development.
Since ancient times, Shifo Village has a tradition of understanding tea, planting tea, loving tea, and serving tea. However, at that time, the income from tea cultivation was too low to support the family.
In order to protect and develop the Shifo tea brand, in 2012, the "two committees" of Shifo Village seized the "bull's nose" of ecological advantages and started an 11-year industrial relay race. Renovate the old and build the new, transform the original 2,000 acres of low-yield tea gardens, and build 1,300 acres of high-standard clones tea gardensThe association was established, and the secretary of the party branch was elected to serve as the president of the associationLeading the way, the introduction of Shifo Temple ecological agriculture to establish a cooperative, poor households with tea gardens and funds into shares, the village "two committees" with collective economic funds into shares, the party branch + association + cooperatives + farmers + base"Five plus"model, the whole village promotes organic transformation and shares the organic value chain. The "two committees" of the village regularly organize the heads of tea enterprises to hold symposiums to discuss the development of the organic industry, establish a sense of brand protection, market competition and product innovation, solve the difficulties in planting, management, production and sales, and continuously promote the standardized development of the industry.
The "two committees" of the village led the people of the village to build tea gardens, make famous tea, expand sales channels, and create organic through brand protection, organic management, extension of the industrial chain, and promotion of the value chain, and successfully jumped out of a way for the tea industry to get rid of poverty and become rich, realizing the protection and quality improvement of the tea brand, increasing the income of tea farmers, increasing the efficiency of tea enterprises, and prospering the tea village. In 2022, the net income of the village collective economy will reach 640,000 yuan, and the joint-stock economic cooperative will achieve a dividend of 35,700 yuan.
Develop tea and create an organic business card of Shifo.
Organic conversion is a need to invest a lot of time cost, labor cost, economic cost of work, in order to eliminate farmers' concerns, to ensure the quality of organic conversion, the village "two committees" on the one hand to take the lead in cooperation with Nanjing Guohuan Organic Product Certification Center, access to professional personnel and technical support, the village tea farmers to carry out tea organic planting training;On the other hand, it provides full service for farmers, so that farmers can rest assured.
The "two committees" of the village implemented "two commitments" and "three supervisions" among the employees, that is, the tea farmers promised to the tea association and the tea factory not to use herbicides and chemical fertilizers in the fields, and the tea factory promised to the tea association and tea farmers not to buy non-organic tea grassTea farmers supervise each other, tea factories supervise each other, and big data monitoring and supervision. To promote the self-management and self-protection of employees, all 364 tea farmers in the village have signed a brand protection commitment.
The mountain high tea has a strong taste, the water is clear and the tea is spiritual, the light is green and the tea is green, and the new tea is beautiful. Mountain, water, light and gas are the four necessary conditions for the production of high-quality tea, fireworks and firecrackers not only affect the light, but also pollute the air, has always been the short board of the production of high-quality tea, in October 2021, Shifo Village began to carry out a village-wide ban on fireworks and firecrackers, the village "two committees" cadres, party members, villager representatives, and the heads of tea enterprises took the lead in banning fireworks and firecrackers. After the implementation of the "ban", the quality of tea has been significantly improved.
Nearly 50 party members in the village have become organic administrators, brand protectors, and policy propagandists in the Shifo tea industry. During the tea season, the village "two committees" organize party members and practitioners to set up fixed persuasion points and mobile inspections, and it is strictly forbidden to enter the country with foreign tea herbs. Picking, sorting, processing, packaging, etc. are all carried out in the park, closed management, production, supply and marketing association is responsible for the overall responsibility, to ensure quality reputation.
By the end of 2022, the 3,300 acres of tea gardens in the village have obtained organic certificates, the per capita tea income is 9,000 yuan, the total output value of tea exceeds 14 million yuan, and the village cooperative has produced and sold more than 2,400 catties of tea, with a sales income of more than 1.2 million yuan, increasing the net income of the village collective economy by 2160,000 yuan, which started the shining business card of Shifo Village's "ecological village" and "tea rich village". The people of the Stone Buddha put down their axes, walked out of the mountains, came to the fields, planted organic tea and organic agricultural products, and really tasted the sweetness.
Not only tea, but also value-added benefits.
In order to further extend the industrial chain and allow farmers to have more value-added benefits, the village "two committees" use the existing organic tea garden resources to guide tea farmers to interplant local organic local agricultural products in the tea garden.
In 2022, a total of 200 acres of organic sweet potatoes, organic sorghum, buckwheat, red rice beans, mung beans, corn, bell peppers, and organic vegetables will be developed, and a new organic sweet potato vermicelli processing plant, organic cereal processing plant, organic bell pepper processing plant, 200 cubic meters of vegetable fresh-keeping warehouse, and the surrounding tourist attractions such as Harrier Luoping, Baimajian, and Steep Shahe will be used by the village company at a higher price than the market price Through processing, packaging and sales, we can diversify products, turn good ecology into good products, and sell good products at good prices.
In 2022, the income per mu will reach 3,000 yuan, the per capita income will increase by 500 yuan, the average household income will increase by nearly 2,000 yuan, the village collective sales income will reach 1.3 million yuan, and the net income will increase by 1810,000 yuan.
Enhance tea, and promote win-win service throughout the process.
The development of organic tea gardens, the cost of tea planting for the people has increased tenfold, some tea farmers are unwilling, the village "two committees" have done a lot of guiding and auxiliary work, while promoting the concept of ecological organic and sustainable development to tea farmers, while actively striving for more policy and financial support. The village made it clear that tea farmers bought organic fertilizer for vegetable oil cakes in the first year, and the village subsidized 40%;Buy a weeding machine, the village subsidizes 50%. In order to reduce the procurement cost of tea farmers, the village purchases organic fertilizer for tea farmers in a unified manner below the market, which reduces the cost of procurement, transportation and other links while ensuring quality and quantity. In 2022, nearly 500 tons of rapeseed cake fertilizer will be purchased, reducing the cost and expenditure of tea farmers by 500 yuan per household, and increasing the net income of the village collective economy by 850,000 yuan.
In order to improve the quality of tea, the village "two committees" took the lead in purchasing a tea color sorter, which can sort the specifications, color, impurities and other characteristics of tea, and upgrade the tea grade sorting mode by manpower to the mechanized operation mode, which greatly saves the production cost of tea, refines the standardized grade of tea, greatly reduces the crushing rate of tea, and realizes the purpose of improving quality and efficiency, reducing labor and cost. Based on the spring output of tea only in 2022, the promotion and application of tea color sorter will save tea farmers more than 20 yuan in tea sorting costs, and at the same time, the village collective economy will increase its income by 8 through color sorter services40,000 yuan.
In order to facilitate the preservation of tea, the village "two committees" took the lead in building a new 80 cubic meter tea fresh-keeping warehouse, which changed the situation that tea farmers needed to send tea to the county 50 kilometers away in the past, greatly saving the cost of preservation and facilitating the masses. In 2022, the new construction of the tea preservation warehouse will save more than 50,000 yuan in tea preservation costs for tea farmers, and at the same time, the village collective economy will increase its income by 10,000 yuan through the freezer preservation service.
Extend tea, tea tourism integration and seek a new chapter.
With tea as the medium, welcome guests from all over the world. In 2016, Shifo Tea Garden was rated as "the 30 most beautiful tea gardens in the country" by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Shifo Village, which has good mountains, good water and good tea, has now become an "Internet celebrity" check-in place, and tourists from other places have come one after another. The "'two committees'" of Shifo Village took advantage of the trend and actively expanded the integration of tea tourism, attracting tourists to come for sightseeing and leisure, hand-making tea, and experiencing farming, so as to expand income channels for villagers. At present, there are 32 farmhouses in Shifo Village, which receive 2 tourists throughout the year50,000 person-times, achieving a comprehensive income of 5 million yuan.
In 2023, the collective economic operating income of Shifo Village is expected to reach 3 million yuan, and the net income will exceed 1 million yuan. In the next step, Shifo Village, Baoxiang Township, will continue to take the road of ecological village, tea tourism rich village, and organic strong village, adhere to the leadership of party building, brand protection, tea tourism integration, and organic management, and realize industrial ecology and ecological industrialization on the road of rural revitalization, extend the industrial chain, improve the value chain, develop ecological organic agriculture, help farmers increase income, and strengthen the village collective economyTake the road of tea tourism integration, turn tea gardens into parks, change farmhouses into guest rooms, make use of good ecological resources, develop cool economic homestays, drive tea farmers to increase income, and strengthen the village collective economy. (Reporter Chen Qingpeng).