Successfully creating new high quality tea varieties

The research group of the Northern Mountainous Agriculture and Forestry Science Institute has successfully bred new LDP2 tea varieties with high yield, high quality, and suitable conditions of Vietnam, increasing the competitiveness of tea products in the market. school

Currently, this new tea variety has an area of ​​about 13,000ha and is present in almost all tea growing provinces of Vietnam such as Phu Tho, Yen Bai, Tuyen Quang and Nghe An .

Dr. Do Van Ngoc, representative of the research group, said the group used the method of sexual hybridization, choosing the right pair of parents to combine the individual selection method to create new varieties, and using the breeding technology calculated by the method of cuttings, ensuring the homogeneity of new tea varieties created by Vietnam.

The LDP2 variety was selected from an individual hybrid between the Chinese origin of the White Tea variety (mother) and the tea variety PH1 (father) of Indian Assam origin in 1980. After more than 10 years of research, of which more than 10 In the trial year, the LDP2 variety is a high yielding variety with good quality, wide adaptability, suitable for processing green tea and black tea.

Up to now, LDP2 seed area has reached over 10,000ha, evaluated by producers with many advantages and determined to be an alternative to the old varieties in order to improve productivity and quality of Vietnamese tea.

According to statistics of the Vietnam Tea Association , in 2009, the area of ​​tea nationwide was nearly 135,000 ha, the average tea yield reached 6.8 tons / ha. Compared to 2000, the new tea area has 80,000 ha, productivity of 3.6 tons, so far the area has increased 1.68 times and productivity increased 1.88 times.

The development of new tea varieties coupled with the expansion of tea area has created jobs for millions of workers in the midland and mountainous areas, to increase income, improve and stabilize the lives of tea makers, contributing to the eradication. poverty reduction, economic development in the midland and mountainous areas. Tea farmers do not burn forest for cultivation, thus contributing to protecting watershed forests.