In order to effectively ensure the safe overwintering of tea plants and the high-quality production of Guyu tea next year, on December 19, Professor Ding Zhaotang, a Taishan Scholar and Chief Expert of the Provincial Tea Industry Technology System, led his team to Feixian County to conduct a survey on Winter tea garden management and Cold resistance technology trials and demonstrations. Experts from the Tea Research Institute of Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Qingdao Agricultural University, Liaocheng University, Shandong Agricultural University, the Municipal Agricultural Technology Center, and the Feixian Fruit and Tea Service Center, as well as technical personnel from tea companies, totaling more than 20 people, participated.
The winter management of tea gardens is an important part of annual tea production and is also key to increasing the yield of Spring Tea and improving the quality of fresh leaves. The Provincial Tea Industry Technology System continues to increase its research efforts on winter tea garden management. Chief Expert Ding Zhaotang's team surveyed the basic situation of winter management, ecological environment, and overwintering of tea plants at the tea gardens of Shandong Chunxi Tea Co., Ltd. They analyzed and discussed factors that might cause Frost damage in the tea gardens and shortcomings in technical management. Working in groups, the team focused on canopy spectral characteristics, light quality, stomatal aperture, 3D modeling, Organic fertilizer application, and plant vaccine spraying, making detailed arrangements for surveys on tea plant growth, data collection, and analysis. Through technological trials and demonstrations in tea gardens, reasonable measures for tea garden management are being developed, creating a favorable canopy and underground ecosystem, enhancing the ability of tea plants to withstand low-temperature cold snaps, and promoting the safe overwintering and quality improvement of northern tea plants.
