Guiyang: Guizhou province launched a free training session for tea farmers in Yanhe county before the spring picking season earlier last month to promote disease prevention techniques and help boost the local industry.
Tea experts and professors from Guizhou University held seminars to demonstrate the growth and disease prevention of tea trees, as well as tea farm management. Thirty-nine trainees, including tea farmers and personnel from tea enterprises, practiced on a tea farm in the county. Huang Yaqin, an agronomist with the local agriculture bureau, said unlike previous indoor lectures delivered mainly by teachers, this training session moved the class onto the farmland. “With the teachers’ guidance, trainees operated by themselves and obtained impressive learning results,” she said.
Jin Linhong, a tea expert in the province and a professor at Guizhou University, said most farmers in the county had misunderstandings about growing tea. “They managed a tea farm and controlled pests using their experience planting other crops, resulting in the misuse of pesticides and posing risks in the tea business,” Jin said.
Jin and her team decided to organize a farmland school, with four training sessions, and teach local talent systematically to improve their problem-solving ability instead of helping them with single issues.
–The Daily-Mail China Daily News exchange Item
