Publised by YanWen Yuan, Editied by George Hu.

31st October, 2023.

Yihong Gongfu Tea, renowned for its unique production process and outstanding flavour characterised by a fruity and honeyed aroma with an orange-red infusion, has become a representative of a healthy lifestyle and is well-loved by consumers. However, in modern society, challenges such as environmental pollution and climate change pose serious threats to agricultural industries, impacting the stable development of Yihong tea production. To address these challenges, establishing tea plantations with high management standards has become a crucial strategy for the sustainable development of the Yihong tea industry. Yichang Tea Group's tea plantations employ high-standard management methods, not only enhancing the quality and yield of Yihong tea but also reducing the agricultural impact on the environment, achieving a positive interaction between ecological protection and agricultural development. The winter management highlights for Yihong tea plantations are outlined below:

Clearing the Garden of Debris: Thoroughly remove weeds, shrubs, and thorns from the tea plantation. Weeds without seeds, removed by cutting or digging, can be locally placed around newly planted or young tea trees to retain moisture and prevent freezing.

Deep Plowing and Fertilisation: Cultivation and fertilisation in the tea plantation can be performed simultaneously. The principles for applying base fertiliser are "early, deep, sufficient, and comprehensive." Early application should be completed by mid to late October, with deep plowing involving trenches at least 20 centimeters deep along the outer edge of the tea tree canopy. Use well-rotted stable manure, rapeseed cake fertiliser and commercial organic fertiliser. Apply approximately 1500–2000 kg of stable manure per acre, 100–150 kg of rapeseed cake fertiliser, 150–200 kg of organic fertiliser, and 100 kg of specialised tea tree fertiliser or compound fertiliser per acre. Ensure a uniform mixture of organic and chemical fertilisers and apply them to the soil.

Pruning Practices: The winter pruning principle for mature tea plantations is "lightly rather than heavily." Pruning is generally done in early to mid-October, retaining autumn shoots and either topping or pruning excessively long branches. On sloped plantations, a recommended method is diagonal pruning along the slope, while on flat plantations, curved pruning is advocated. For sealed-row plantations, edge pruning should be carried out, removing intersecting branches between rows and maintaining a spacing of 20–30 centimeters between tea trees.

Closing the Garden to Resist Diseases: Timely removal of diseased branches and leaves to eliminate overwintering pathogens and insect sources. After fertilisation and pruning, use a 0.7% lime Bordeaux mixture or a 0.3–0.5 Bordeaux degree lime-sulfur mixture for garden closure. When spraying, ensure coverage of the upper and lower parts of the tea bushes, both inside and outside, and spray the top and bottom surfaces of the leaves and the ground to improve the preventive effect.

Yihong Tea's high-standard management of tea plantations serves as the first line of defense for ensuring the quality of fresh leaves for Yichang Tea Group. The collision of the golden latitude, core production area's Yichang tea germplasm resources, innovative processing techniques, and high-standard management of tea plantations aims to bring you the first sip of Yihong tea's freshness in spring. Yihong Gongfu Tea—please savour it with joy!

Tea deep processing business

As the main product of Yichang Tea Group 's deep processing plate, tea concentrate currently has black tea, green tea, oolong tea, flower tea and other categories. High-quality raw materials are selected, extracted and concentrated by high-tech extraction and concentration, with excellent quality and green health, It can be added to any food that needs tea flavour, such as tea beverage series, juice, candy and so on.

Tea intensive processing business

Instant tea: primary leaves are selected from the national high-quality tea producing areas, and deeply processed by modern high-tech. The products are widely used in tea drinks, dietary supplements, catering drinks and other fields. The tea has strong fragrance and mellow taste, which can be widely used in food formulation.

Matcha powder: products are made from high-quality Matcha raw materials by traditional steam bleaching and stone grinding. The appearance is green, delicate and fragrant. Products are widely used in all kinds of baked bread, cake, biscuit, moon cake and other foods, as well as dairy products, cold food, bean products, beverages, health food, daily chemical products and many others.

About Yichang Tea Group

Yichang Tea Group Co., Ltd. (Yicha Group), founded in July 2022, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Angel Group, with a registered capital of 300 million yuan. With capital as the link, Yichang Tea Group integrates local tea industry resources in a market-oriented way and further improves industrial concentration and market competitiveness to build an industry leading enterprise.

Premium tea business

Yichang Group gradually holds Yihong, Caihua, Xiao’s and other well-known local tea enterprises and integrates local tea resources to form an overall advantage. We will improve the layout of green tea, black tea and other popular and high-end famous tea product lines. And the company uses and integrates the existing channels of Angel Group and the original channels for purchasing tea enterprises to continuously promote the sales in the provincial market, and on this basis, takes advantage of the opportunities to expand the market outside the province and overseas famous and high-quality tea market.

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Yichang Tea Group

Yichang, Hubei, China

Jimmy Fu

Tel.: +86 15207201087

Email: fujh@angelyeast.com